US Air Force forcing radioactive McClellan base waste dump onto city of Sac -CIR
Watch this strong piece of reporting from CIR on the US Air Force’s battle with the City of Sacramento over what to do with the…
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Sacramento Missed Connection: A case of the Romeo poops
Deny thy toilet and refuse thy scat Check out this modern-day Romeo & Juliet scene from CraigsList Sacramento’s Missed Connections, in which a Midtown woman…
'The Newsroom' 2.8: Election night reenactments are boring
“Dang it honey, why can’t Will and Mac admit they still love each other?” Raheem Hosseini 2:46 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10 After a weeklong reprieve,…
SN&R eats a Crunchtada
So, Del Taco recently rolled out its Crunchtada, and sent SN&R an invitation to try it. So we did. And we (surprise!) weren’t too impressed….
Jerry Brown's privatization push makes us all slaves to the system
As American as apple pie and mass incarceration. The Who must have had Gov. Jerry Brown in mind when they sang, “Meet the new boss, same…
Weird debut Tweet by Steve Cohn for Assembly
Cohn campaign learned today it was mistaken in believing it had the endorsement of Mayor Kevin Johnson. — Cohn for Assembly (@CohnforAssembly) September 10, 2013…
Journalists vs. the NSA
Comfort Eagle My mantra as a journalist has long been Finley Peter Dunne’s “Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable,” a fairly straight-forward guideline for…
Del Taco wants SN&R to eat a Crunchtada. And wear earplugs.
I’m pretty sure the last time I ate at Del Taco was the day I camped out in line at Fry’s Electronics for a 32-inch…
Our bizarre voicemail saga never ends
Calling SN&R is all the rage Last month, my colleague Raheem Hosseini received quite a bit of bizarre feedback on the cover story he’d written…
Local Pastafarians question the use of prayer in Rancho Cordova City Council meetings
Sacramento is home to at least 52 Pastafarians—aka followers of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. And they’re boiled over. Of course, 52 is…
Mac Worthy celebrates his birthday by saying the n-word. A lot.
Mac “Pimping the People” Worthy turned an energetic 72 yesterday, and boy was our favorite public speaker in rare form. He spent his birthday doing what…
Get a life
Joey advises a reader to stand her marital ground.
Test your taxi driver skills
Over the grumbles of struggling taxi drivers and some immigrant-owned cab companies, a Sacramento city committee pressed on with a multi-year effort to reform the…
SN&R among the city's coolest workspaces
Not sure if you caught Melody Stone’s Sac Press article on the coolest workspaces in town, but SN&R is happy to announce that we made…
‘The Newsroom’ 2.7: Institutional failures and sucker slaps
Don’t take his stapler OR misquote him. Raheem Hosseini 6:02 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29 The Newsroom creator Aaron Sorkin really seems to want to…
Union Gospel Mission: Opposing viewpoints, follow-up and photos
The cover story this week, in which I spent four days living on the streets in Sacramento, has garnered a bit of attention since publishing…
New, contentious Darrell Steinberg bill to give special treatment to Kings arena
The proposed Sacramento Kings arena will soon receive a Kevin Johnson-worthy assist from Darrell Steinberg: The state senate leader plans to introduce an 11th-hour bill…