Desperate measures
Editor’s note: Facing an unrelenting COVID-19 surge, Sacramento County supervisors consider fining businesses that endanger public health With no end in sight to the latest…
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Letters: Unemployment fraud, COVID-19, etc.
Asleep at the switch Re: “For rural counties, stopping inmate unemployment fraud is daunting” by Scott Thomas Anderson (News, Nov. 27): WTH why isn’t state…
Free Will Astrology
For the week of Dec. 3, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): An anonymous blogger on Tumblr writes the following: “What I’d really…
A discount on arena rent?
Editor’s note: If fans aren’t allowed at Golden 1 Center, will the Sacramento Kings ask City Hall for a lower payment? Like almost every entertainment…
A dangerous time for disarray
Editor’s note: Sacramento County’s leadership is in transition as the COVID-19 pandemic peaks We’re heading into a long, dark winter of COVID-19. So could the…
Free Will Astrology
For the week of Nov. 19, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Back in 1974, poet Allen Ginsberg and his “spirit wife,” Aries…
What Mai Vang’s win means
Editor’s note: The first Asian-American woman on the Sacramento City Council will be a strong progressive voice In an election when Americans elected the first…
Letters: COVID-19 lockdown, election results, county CEO
Boycott restaurants? Re: “Progress lost” by Foon Rhee (Editor’s note, Nov. 10): We really need to start thinking about boycotting the restaurants of these organizations…
Free Will Astrology
For the week of Nov. 12, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Love can’t always do work,” wrote novelist Iris Murdoch. “Sometimes it…
COVID for the holidays
Editor’s note: Yolo County narrowly avoided a stricter lockdown. Now, public health officials there and elsewhere are trying to prevent a spike during the holidays….
The Trump stain
The damage done to America by Donald Trump will take decades to repair By Sasha Abramsky Four years ago, in those horrific days surrounding Donald…
Progress lost
Editor’s note: Sacramento County goes backwards on COVID-19 and must limit indoor businesses again Sacramento County took a significant step backwards Nov. 10 in its…
Sac County CEO under siege
Editor’s note: Public health officials join those calling for Nav Gill to be fired Sacramento County’s public health officer and several other health officials are…
Steady as a Valley oak
Ray Tretheway retires after 30 years as executive director of the Sacramento Tree Foundation For nearly four decades, Ray Tretheway has been as strong and…
Biden’s big challenge
Editor’s note: The president-elect faces very difficult work to fix the mess Trump is leaving behind Our long national nightmare looks like it’s nearly over….
Free Will Astrology
For the week of Nov. 5, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries poet Charles Baudelaire championed the privilege and luxury of changing…
Post-election despair
Here are ways to cope, no matter who is the next president Prepare yourself for grief. Tidal waves of despair are headed our way no…