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by Cosmo Garvin Bill Camp, the outspoken executive secretary of the Sacramento Central Labor Council, has been fired, apparently because of an internal dispute over…

By Brooke Purves With 49 different languages spoken in students’ homes, the Twin Rivers Unified School District faces a perennial challenge in communicating with families….

By Jeff Gonzales State lawmakers sought last week to guard California’s female prison population from penitentiary doctors who treated them like guinea pigs. On August…

Nevermind that I’m writing about the latest click-bait list for my own click-bait purposes here on this blog … there’s a damn announcement: Sacramento is…

I’ve loved sriracha for a long time (the Huy Fong Foods, Inc. version in particular). And I’ve loved pizza for a quite a while, too….

Arenas, mermaids, 24-hour gyms–there’s a lot of new on K Street these days. Unfortunately for fans of local arts, events and cinema, a little bit…

My car was packed with coolers, tents, rebar stakes, whiskey, water and costumes. Our plan was to get to Black Rock City, Nevada late—just enough…

Coffee geeks just don’t have the same options as wine and beer aficionados.  Roasteries rarely offer tours and tastings like wineries and breweries. And when…

It’s official: There’s only a month until summer ends. Although daylight is getting shorter, the good news is we’re finally getting a little break from…

Photo by Charr Crail —by Kel Munger It seems cliché, but it takes love to make a family function—and families can be dysfunctional in all sorts…

By Jeff Gonzales Elizabeth Rhose has juggled as many as four jobs at the same time this year to make ends meet. She’s not the…