ESSAY: Heading back to prison
By Eugene Alexander Dey Ever the recidivist, I was headed back to lockup. Being in prison is a dreadful, emotional experience. However, this time was…
Read MoreArticles by Raheem Hosseini
Media lessons from a millennial
By Dave Kempa Al Jazeera America battles for footing on satellite and cable TV. Journalist Glenn Greenwald leaves The Guardian to create a new company…
Sac State study: Are California voters too ignorant to vote?
Apparently, we voters are kind of dumb when it comes to fiscal policy. That’s the demoralizing takeaway from a recent statewide survey by a trio…
Halloween tales from the police activity log
By Dave Kempa For many, October 31 is an evening of dress-up and drunken revelry. For some, it’s just another night out on patrol. Sacramento…
Sac State of THE FUTURE
By Cody Drabble Sacramento State University will get a long-overdue facelift over the next decade, thanks to a new composite plan laying out the future…
Baby daddy imbroglio snares Twin Rivers trustee
After months of skirting paternity-test suspicions and financial disclosure charges, Cortez L. Quinn, the embattled Twin Rivers school board trustee and Assemblyman Roger Dicksinson’s former chief of…
Sacramento County loses health plan options
It just doesn’t pay to provide quality health care. Sacramento County supervisors learned that hard economic lesson Tuesday, when they grappled with Blue Shield’s decision…
Drug charge dropped for really generous candy man
Giving kids free candy can get you arrested. That is, if you’re doing it a full week before Halloween and you’re on probation. That’s reportedly…
Indulgent reflections on the late, great Lou Reed
Dear Lou, The night you died, slipping through the same alley where your trashbag liver pustulated out the excesses of your beloved fringe, a lot…
Medi-Cal, environmental concerns dog north Sacramento psychiatric hospital project
Feeling a full-court press from their constituents, Sacramento City Council members Steve Cohn and Allen Warren booted a contentious land use vote initially set for…
Rascal outruns Rascal
High-speed chase. A thief stole a wallet from the basket of a woman’s mobility scooter Sunday morning, and then outran the scooter, Sacramento Police Department…
Men can be Halloween 'whores,' too
Now I enjoy scantily clad women as much as the next awkward heterosexual, but my Steve Urkel libido just can’t get behind a Halloween costume…
VIDEO: Wrestling display turns bloody during American River College communications class
We’re not sure what head-splitting wrestling moves have to do with effective communication skills, but one Sacramento community college professor saw fit to let two…
Sacramento coroner restricts agreement with Garden of Innocence
Well, that was fast. Hours after SN&R’s October 10 story on Garden of Innocence National hit stands, the charity that buried 20 miscarried fetuses in…
Allen Warren asks hilarious questions about gender identity
At least the first-term councilman did for six squirming minutes during a Tuesday afternoon committee hearing on the city of Sacramento’s evolving non-discrimination policies. Sacramento…
Sacramento prosecutor deems foot fetish a 'sexual perversion'
Does this do it for you? Sicko? A sexual batterer’s attraction to feet got an unusual shout-out in a press release issued Tuesday by…
Garden of Innocence co-founder emails donors following story
The fallout from SN&R’s story on Garden of Innocence continues. Co-founder Elissa Davey, a San Diego real estate agent, sent a lengthy email Thursday night…