ESSAY: Additional transparency needed in state health care exchanges
By Charis Hill Implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the opportunity to enroll in Covered California came at a critical moment in my life….
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School is in. Time to rekindle that porn addiction.
Kids everywhere are back in school and their dads are back to their … porn? So says an adult website that’s tattling on its customers….
Repeat winner gets Lotto love
A Sacramento County man defied math and likely ticked off repeat lottery losers by hitting the jackpot for his second time last week. According to…
WIC moms can buy groceries again
State-assisted moms are about to have a slew of new options for their grocery purchases. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday further loosened a…
Twin Rivers hopes to school families with Parent University
By Brooke Purves With 49 different languages spoken in students’ homes, the Twin Rivers Unified School District faces a perennial challenge in communicating with families….
State lawmakers pass bill protecting female inmates from prison doctors
By Jeff Gonzales State lawmakers sought last week to guard California’s female prison population from penitentiary doctors who treated them like guinea pigs. On August…
Labor report says some Californians still overworked, underpaid
By Jeff Gonzales Elizabeth Rhose has juggled as many as four jobs at the same time this year to make ends meet. She’s not the…
Councilman leads charge against KJ's 'strong mayor' fourquel
By Raheem F. Hosseini & Nick Miller Sacramento City Council meetings could get a little extra awkward over the next couple of months. An anti-“strong…
State victims panel looks to modernize its criteria for approving claims
The statewide panel charged with helping California’s crime victims get back on their feet is taking a hard look in the mirror. During two meetings…
ESSAY: Tips to quench an exceptional drought
By Rudy Raya California’s thirst is real. It might be difficult to notice the effects of the water shortage when you live downtown or in…
Prop. 46 proponents say they want to prevent pill-popping doctors
By Alastair Bland About a decade ago, Alana Pack of Danville went for a walk with her two children. A car driven by a woman…
County's jail maverick retires
One of the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department’s leading voices for rehabilitation retired Thursday following a 33-year career. Milo Fitch, 55, chief deputy of the department’s…
Sacramentans are actually saving water
Sacramento-area water customers are answering the call to reduce their consumption during this drought. Sort of. The Regional Water Authority says water use went down…
Might new pipeline help Sacramento's drought situation?
By Alastair Bland A taxing drought has brought new urgency to a 10-year-old promise to reduce Sacramento’s water consumption by 20 million gallons by 2024….
ESSAY: Meeting cute in an online world
By Ken Paglia I’m thinking about giving up on the meet cute. The meet cute, if you don’t know, is the plot device that romantic…
Man hands over drug money, gets no drugs. What is the world coming to?
A man trying to buy drugs called the cops on Saturday after his purported dealer punched him in the face and sped off with his…
State Fair ATM launches probe into credit card fraud
A multi-agency operation resulted in the apprehension of an accused financial fraudster Wednesday morning in Sacramento, 12 days after a victim learned a credit card had…