Articles by Jeff vonKaenel

Supervisor Phil Serna drives neighborhood improvements in south Sacramento.

On Rev. Rick Cole’s 14 days and nights living homeless on Sacramento’s streets.

California’s Proposition 47 will reduce many felony convictions to misdemeanors.

Or is it better economics to subsidize housing outside of the Midtown-downtown grid?

You might as well stick to a steady diet of cheesecake.

The Prince of Del Paso Heights, a mentor for the powerful and powerless.

Sacramento County Supervisor Phil Serna says South Oak Park will see results.

Arlen Orchard, Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s new CEO, faces tough choices.

Twin Rivers Unified School District Superintendent Steven Martinez is making a difference.

Does the newly formed Greater Sacramento Area Economic Council more than duplicate existing organizations?

The pendulum has swung toward income inequality, so what’s next?

In the past, advertising revenue funded journalism. Now, we have to find a new way to fund independent reporting.

California and Sacramento need sustainable water-management plans.

Openness and diversity are huge strengths of Sacramento’s chamber. We need a CEO that supports and even celebrates this.

Former Gov. Pat Brown's 1959 budget plan provides an outline for California's future.

If you like SN&R's cover story this week, then read Sasha Abramsky's book The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives.