Where will hungry students eat?
It feels almost silly to mention now that we’re living in a contagious hellscape, but there was an election on March 3 and at some…
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Folsom city miscues
What if Folsom announced an emergency City Council meeting one hour before it started, chose not to livestream it despite having the capability to do…
Missing
Most of Sacramento’s missing persons vanish from one place—and it’s supposed to be a sanctuary for abused children. Among the many tragedies of her death is…
My Oma the serial dater
As the story goes, I thought my grandmother was a witch the first time I almost met her. It was 1984. My family had come a…
Sensitivity draining
Pandemic fever has reached the Sacramento area, even if the dreaded coronavirus hasn’t. The city of Elk Grove canceled a Chinese New Year celebration, set…
Returning to the fold—for answers
One of the first childhood sexual abuse lawsuits against a non-Catholic church under new California law seeks to get to the bottom of a 20-year…
The Comics Issue
Sacramento’s best undiscovered cartoonists and SN&R staffers draw pictures of life as they see it—wonderfully weird Anyone who’s seen a prehistoric cave drawing already knows that…
The marriage guru
Justin Sterling became a millionaire preaching sexist ideology. Here’s why his kind is doing better than ever. And then out came the penises. There had…
The problem with K.J.’s comeback
Sacramento didn’t author Kevin Johnson’s political downfall. Will the city support the accused molester’s makeover as a celebrity restaurant owner? By Raheem F. Hosseini and…
To pimp a fire chief
15 years after Fire Department overcame a series of crippling sex scandals, where does chief’s questionable Halloween attire rate? In the grand scheme of firefighter…
Welcome to DMV purgatory
Forget REAL ID delays and ‘motor voter’ boondoggle—California’s most dysfunctional agency can’t get a simple license renewal right The line stretched to the door. The ragtag…
A quick draw to a kill
A solo deputy at the end of an overtime shift. A man with a realistic-looking BB gun. And a calm encounter that turned deadly. A…
Wait, ‘Katie Johnson’ actually exists?
Trump’s sexual assault accuser is real—and in hiding—says her former attorney A California woman who accused Donald Trump of raping her a quarter-century ago when she…
No justice, no surprise
City Hall tries to turn page on the Stephon Clark case without acknowledging that every review of his death relied on the police investigation of…
Epstein, Trump and … SN&R?
An unbelievable news tip. A dead-of-night phone call. And a journey to the edge of an unknowable political scandal. It didn’t start with a phone…
In juror discrimination case, the prosecution resists
Richard Williams could have been a candidate for DA’s conviction review unit, but instead he had to overturn his own guilty verdict Richard Alex Williams…
Bern-ing Sacramento
California hasn’t always mattered in presidential primaries. Bernie Sanders’ rally proves that’s about to change. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ visit to Sacramento last week confirmed…