Two Sacramento shelter efforts heating up for the winter
By Brooke Purves Two local shelter programs with long- and short-term goals are getting their respective houses in order in the face of another approaching…
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Sacramento gas is cheap. Time to worry?
A recent decision by an international consortium of oil-producing nations translated into an unprecedented dip in local gas prices over Thanksgiving weekend. In Sacramento, the average price…
Crowd violence looks like a bare bottom crawling away
The man casts a full moon as he crawls to safety. Unaware or uncaring that his pants are bunched around his ankles and his bare ass…
UNDER THE COVER: Roiled by scandal, state tasked counties with incarcerating delinquents
Author’s note: In this week’s cover story, SN&R illustrates how county juvenile halls have become unofficial mental institutions for society’s most troubled youth. But how…
A poem from inside juvenile hall's mental health crisis
On the cover tomorrow, SN&R’s eight-month investigation into the juvenile justice system’s mental health crisis, and how local juvenile halls have transformed into accidental psychiatric…
Mothballed Boys Ranch could become federal prison
A mothballed juvenile detention facility gathering weeds in the county’s rustic south could be Sacramento’s entry into the private prison business. County officials are entertaining…
Hey “early Sunday edition.” You're Saturday. Bee Saturday.
If you’ve felt a pang of sticker shock while picking up a newspaper the last couple Saturdays, hi, how are you? Me too. The Sacramento…
Davis police defend their MRAP
By Erin E. Young Davis police officials sought last week to appease residents’ fears that their department is too militarized. More than 50 Davis residents…
Bumpy road ahead for Sacramento infrastructure
By Alastair Bland Sacramento County’s roads are bad and getting worse. And, in the years ahead, drivers and cyclists are likely to encounter increasingly more…
First-gen college hopefuls from Sacramento earn scholarship aid
By Brooke Purves Three Sacramento-area high school juniors who are rich with drive but short on resources will get help with the latter, courtesy of…
Fewer ducks getting busy. Thanks, drought!
By Brooke Purves A multi-year drought has claimed another cruel casualty—duck love. According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s waterfowl breeding population survey…
Smut Marketing 101: Be persistent
Smut peddlers are like aspiring magicians: You don’t want to give them positive reinforcement, yet they’re difficult to ignore. Following an adulterated (as in “short”)…
12 percent of Sacramentans seek emergency food aid
Stigma be damned: More than 175,000 Sacramento County residents turned to food banks and other emergency food providers last year to fill their cupboards and…
ESSAY: Rev. Rick Cole and his homeless publicity stunt
By Kel Munger It’s not surprising that Capital Christian Center pastor Rick Cole decided a publicity stunt was the best way to help Sacramento’s homeless…
Relative speaking, Sacramento plans to fix foster pay discrepancy
Foster care providers who take in their relatives may soon get paid the same as those who don’t. In Sacramento County, at least. According to…
ESSAY: Defensive tactics, not attitude, needed to make Sacramento a biketopia
By Jacob Waters Fellow Sacramento cyclists, we need to have a talk. We all want to live in a city where biking is a safe,…
Heavily armored combat vehicles–on a school campus near you
Sgt. Jim Schaefers is certainly not opposed to toys. Schaefers coordinates the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department’s 1033 Program, which allows local law enforcement agencies to…