Wood pellet mills in California: A blessing or a boondoggle?
Supporters say harvesting trees would thin out the state’s overgrown forests; critics say the wood pellets for heating produce more carbon than coal. By John…
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Project Attain seeks to close the education gap in adult learners in Sacramento region
By Hannah Ross Mia Lopez graduates next week. The communications analyst for the Sacramento Area Council of Governments will be graduating with a Bachelor of…
Legendary rapper Scarface brings his live band and ‘Behind the Desk Experience’ to Sacramento on March 24
By Eddie Jorgensen For years, Brad Jordan has been widely known as a member of gangster rap group, Geto Boys, who achieved notoriety during…
Nonprofit arts and culture sector pumped $241.7 million into Sacramento County in 2022, $151.7 billion into national economy
Findings from the sixth Arts & Economic Prosperity (AEP6) study revealed By Cristian Gonzalez The sixth Arts & Economic Prosperity (AEP6) study revealed that the…
The Foilies 2024: Recognizing the worst in government transparency
By Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock We’re taught in school about checks and balances between the various branches of government, but those lessons tend to…
Equity in the Capital: Reporters Chris Nichols and Ben van der Meer on creative solutions to the housing crisis
By Nick Brunner The issues of lack of housing affordability and availability are likely to hover around Sacramento for some time, but there’s no shortage…
An Irish elegy: Sacramento mourns the loss of Celtic fiddle sensation St. John Fraser
The strings have settled for One Eyed Reilly performer who now ‘moves into another expression of being’ By Casey Rafter The Irish have a toast…
Call of the Celtic soul: Nuala Kennedy brings sounds from her Irish roots to The Sofia on March 16
By Alyssa Earnest For Nuala Kennedy, community, tradition and her home are the threads that weave the music she creates. After moving from Ireland to…
Sacramento artists bring forth community-centric solutions at city arts commission meeting
Artists reconvene to further discuss Wide Open Walls following failed mural project By Hannah Ross Artists of all stripes gathered for the monthly meeting of…
California’s proposed foster care cuts could increase homelessness, advocates say
By Chris Nichols for Capital Public Radio Advocates for California’s foster youth are criticizing Governor Gavin Newsom’s plan to cut several programs they say are…
Writers’ group hosts talk for the public with SN&R’s editor on new documentary crime podcast ‘Trace of the Devastation’ March 20
Free event to be held in Auburn City Hall, with Q&A included By Margie Yee Webb for the Gold Country Writers’ newsletter We are…
Alchemist Public Market planned for Sacramento’s River District
By Keyshawn Davis In the emerging residential and commercial River District in Sacramento, Alchemist Community Development Corporation is planning a public market for the community…
Why it is time for Newsom and the Legislature to get serious about mental health in California
It is one of the state’s greatest health needs, companies fail to live up to their policies, and the state does not invest what is…
Sacramento’s only high school-run radio station provides real-world tools and fosters community
By Helen Harlan It was business as usual in Room S1 at El Camino Fundamental High School just after 9 a.m. on a recent Friday…
Why has the white working class embraced Trump?
By Kelly Candaele,, Capital & Main This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. What do…
South America’s Grupo Corpo brings a new physicality to live interpretive dance in Davis on March 13
By Eddie Jorgensen It’s no great secret that Brazilian communities are growing in the Sacramento Valley and surrounding areas. Yet some say there’s been a…
Harder leads coalition urging Army Corps of Engineers to deny permit for Delta Tunnel ‘water grab’
By Dan Bacher Representative Josh Harder (CA-9) is leading a group of his Delta region colleagues to urge the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to…