By Scott Thomas Anderson Five days from now, activist Maile Hampton is scheduled to stand trial for the crime of touching a fellow protester’s arm for…
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Housing advocates say minimal requirement will worsen Sacramento’s rental crisis, housing segregation By Scott Thomas Anderson For Darryl Rutherford, November 10 took a turn for…
By Scott Thomas Anderson Mike Israel, right, volunteered to serve with a Kurdish militia in northern Syria while fighting ISIS. He was killed on Monday….
By Scott Thomas Anderson Tyler Gunn watches a bleak light fade in the business park on a mid-October evening. There’s no sign of Sacramento County Sheriff…
By Scott Thomas Anderson Showered by developer cash camouflaged through a political action committee, the Folsom City Council has quietly led an aggressive annexation campaign that…
SN&R analysis shows revised ordinances have accomplished little, just as critics predicted By Scott Thomas Anderson Rob Kerth remembers the surreal feeling that followed the…
By Scott Thomas Anderson Family members of Joseph Mann, who was shot to death July 11 by Sacramento police, broke their silence at an emotionally…
Our writer encounters MAVMIT, the Department of Fish and Wildlife’s mysterious anti-marijuana task force By Cosmo Garvin The next time you’re running errands around town, beware:…
By Cosmo Garvin Bites has been banging pots and pans for a while now about Mayor Kevin Johnson’s use of public resources to advance his…
Author Scott Thomas Anderson’s new book explores America’s appetite for incarceration By Raheem F. Hosseini Journalist Scott Thomas Anderson has stuck his trickiest deadline yet. The author, hard-news…
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…
Nearly two decades after the reporter exposed a connection between the CIA and crack cocaine in America, Hollywood chimes in with a major movie By…
By Scott Thomas Anderson Michael Grimm is lucky he’s a politician. The Republican congressman from New York became an instant YouTube star and late-night punch…
By Scott Thomas Anderson “Hypnosis” is a Greek word inspired by a god who dwelled in a dark cave the sun could never penetrate. This…
By Cosmo Garvin Bites is old, as far as media experiments go. When Capital Bites debuted, Bill Clinton was president and alternative-weekly newspapers made money. You…
California realigned its prison system more than two years ago, but rehabilitation is still out of whack By Raheem F. Hosseini Tim Gene Sanders is…
By Scott Thomas Anderson and Raheem Hosseini It was when he saw the girls’ eyes that Hafed Mohamed Thabet realized what he had become. In…