A city of gardeners
We are a community of gardeners. Our love of growing things is greater than our passion for politics or sports, and unites us in ways…
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No shelter from the critics
Sacramento mayor defends $40 million shelter plan as the first step toward permanent housing, but faces critics on both sides With critics forming on two…
Spring cleaning
Tips on how to clear out your heart’s closet.
Trying to make our community a better place
Publisher Jeff vonKaenel looks back over the last 30 years.
Secondary smoke
Is Sacramento ready for the next big wildfire? Sacramento wasn’t ready for the smoke that billowed south from November’s Camp Fire, the deadliest and most…
California organizers are trying to complete Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of uniting the poor
King’s dream of ending poverty fizzled after his 1968 assassination. So why is it resonating a half-century later in Sacramento? For six Mondays last summer,…
Perplexed by a friend
You can’t know what’s going on with a friend just from Facebook posts.
Black Lives Matter interrupts DA’s speech with silence
Sacramento chapter founder one of two arrested for trespassing after buying tickets to female bar association luncheon White tablecloths, mostly white faces. Cue the woman…
Evicted for organizing tenants?
By Scott Thomas Anderson Eliza Deed is known for showcasing her singing voice at improv events and on social media. Now she’s worried that using…
Before Stephon Clark, Joseph Mann’s death ignited calls for police reform
Federal judge reverses course, decides Mann’s siblings lack standing to sue city and cops who killed him Local civil rights attorney Mark Merin stood in…
No love connection
When dates don't lead to a relationship.
Big tech vs. 7.5 billion Earthlings
Surveillance Capitalism and our future.
Undercover deputies solicit and arrest 10 women in ‘Stockton stroll’ prostitution sting that uses condoms as evidence
Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department subverts the messaging of anti-human trafficking coalition to which it belongs The largest prostitution-related sting in Sacramento County this year swept…
Editor’s note: SMUD is better than PG&E, but not perfect
By Foon Rhee First off, it’s far better to get your power from SMUD than PG&E, especially these days. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District charges…
Sacramento progressives, shocked by Mueller report, point to 2020
By Sasha Abramsky As news of Attorney General William Barr’s summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report hit on Sunday afternoon, stunned progressives around Sacramento…
Midnight Burning: Three murders, three detectives and the remnants of a savage summer
Doyle Hemling was in his bedroom when a car door slammed in the darkness. Hemling lived on Annabelle Avenue, a one-way country road dipping through…
No perfect endings
Closure in a relationship can be abrupt.