Sacramento women’s group empowers local business owners
By Marie-Elena Schembri Reneta Jenik quickly saw the benefits with her Folsom-based home chef service, Foodom, when she gained her first corporate customer from a…
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Without tree cover, urban Californians are hit harder by heat, air pollution
California cities have the least urban tree canopy in the U.S. A Los Angeles housing project shows how residents can transform their environment — if…
So, you wanna be a Sacramento sound engineer?
How audio masters keep the beat for the city’s live entertainment By Eddie Jorgensen Jeremy Ayala, an audio engineer who runs the sound boards at…
The ‘out of body’ stranger: Investigators reveal night of terror for murdered woman in Land Park
By Scott Thomas Anderson The first firefighter who tried to rush into the house that morning found himself struggling with the door. He could see…
Cal Expo horsemen step up to help after devastating barn fire
Local harness trainers and owners donate trailer-full of supplies after Tioga Downs tragedy It’s a care package on wheels with a cross-country message: Horsemen take…
Environmentalists blast Newsom again, this time for ‘streamlining’ Sites Reservoir in the Sacramento Valley
By Dan Bacher Despite strong opposition from indigenous tribes, fishing groups and conservation organizations, Governor Gavin Newsom took action in early November to fast-track the Sites Reservoir…
How an expired pandemic-era policy doubled child poverty rates
The expanded Child Tax Credit cut child poverty rates in half — now they’ve doubled By Russell Nichols In 2021, when federal lawmakers cut child…
Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools
By Carolyn Jones for CalMatters Pushing back against the surge of misinformation online, California will now require all K-12 students to learn media literacy skills…
Survival in postapocalyptic Las Vegas: Jarret Keene’s ‘Hammer of the Dogs’ explores a fierce new world
Set in the wasteland of post-apocalyptic Las Vegas, Hammer of the Dogs is a literary dystopian adventure filled with high-octane fun starring 21-year-old Lash. With her high-tech…
More than a year after Roe falls, there’s a broader crisis under the flashpoint
By Scott Thomas Anderson It’s been 16 months since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federally protected right to an abortion. Has the public truly…
Scaring scares: Argentinian film ‘When Evil Lurks’ is unique, well-done—and beyond brutal
By Bob Grimm Most mainstream horror movies released this autumn have been a real letdown (Saw X, Five Nights at Freddy’s, The Exorcist: Believer)—with goofy,…
Song of the mountain lark: Cassidy Joy rises with a stirring soundtrack of determination
By Scott Thomas Anderson Garden lights are drifting on a pale dream of the evening, their orbs crossing in lines to glow like mountain honey…
Sacramento County’s opioid deaths by the numbers
By Will Duvall and Kimberly Gomez Santos The number of deaths due to opioid related overdoses has steadily increased in Sacramento County, with 215 fatalities…
Race for Sacramento’s mayor: An interview with Kevin McCarty
By Lauren Reagan, Idaly Valencia and Gavin Hudson Kevin McCarty says he is running for mayor of Sacramento because he wants to give back and…
Creativity in the Capital: Barbara Range and Jaya King on making artistic success reality and how to be one’s own ‘biggest advocate’
By Casey Rafter Barbara Range, director of The Brickhouse Gallery and Art Complex since 2012, has called her work as the space’s curator “in service…
Legacies both ragged and rich: Michelle Tea on poverty and the American Family
“Growing up within the poorer half of our country is my history.” By Michelle Tea for The Economic Hardship Project What is family for broke…
Housing California’s Policy Director Christopher Martin on ‘adopting solutions at scale’ to move the needle on housing
By Jessica Laskey here’s never a day’s rest for Christopher Martin, policy director for Housing California, a statewide advocacy organization that “works to create a…