Taming the inner storm
A Vietnam refugee turned psychologist offers her own painful journey in new memoir By Scott Thomas Anderson Several years ago, a psychologist at UC Davis…
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Delta tunnel advisory committee compelled to work through the pandemic
Were COVID-19-related concerns intentionally downplayed to the Delta Protection Committee? By Scott Thomas Anderson Members of a committee designed to ensure Delta communities and tribal…
COVID-19 cover?
Critics cry foul as Sacramento passes embattled telecommunication plan with public’s voice lowered by lockdown By Scott Thomas Anderson Last year, Sacramento City Hall was…
Sac’s independent bookstores try to soldier on, survive the lockdown
By Scott Thomas Anderson In exploring the life of author C.S. Lewis, who saw the imaginative possibilities in books even during his moments of suffering,…
Concerns grow in City Hall over the mental health toll of COVID-19 and the lockdown
By Scott Thomas Anderson For Sacramento Mayor Pro Tem Angelique Ashby, the jarring news flooded in from different directions: Police, school officials, parents, neighbors. It…
Sacramento tries to stop a COVID-19 disaster in its homeless camps
By Scott Thomas Anderson Last week, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg stood by Gov. Gavin Newsom in front of a motel that had recently been converted…
State’s independent engineers raise alarm about new Delta tunnel plan
By Scott Thomas Anderson With the coronavirus pandemic upending life in California, state officials are extending their deadline for public input on the latest plan…
A ‘som’ behind the barrels
How a veteran sommelier became one of Amador’s most exciting winemakers By Scott Thomas Anderson A decade ago, Thomas Allan began evolving from one kind…
Sacramento-area faith leaders are in the trenches of the coronavirus battle
By Scott Thomas Anderson Four days before the statewide stay-at-home order, Pastor Mike Ernst of Auburn’s Cornerstone Community Church bumped into Father Brian Rebholtz of…
Hard lessons
Two-time teacher of the year in legal battle with Twin Rivers over retaliation claims By Scott Thomas Anderson When Mohamed Bashamak immigrated from Ethiopia in…
Bracing for financial impact
By Scott Thomas Anderson On March 13, the coronavirus response came to City Hall with the City Council holding an emergency meeting in an empty…
Safety from shutoffs
By Scott Thomas Anderson Some utility providers are making sure that the economic hardship caused by the spreading novel coronavirus doesn’t make it even harder…
Who’s paying to fix Sac’s housing crisis?
Developers got a break, taxpayers get the bill. Sometimes the words that are never spoken during a big political moment reveal more than the ones…
One tunnel, same distrust
Environmental, tribal and Delta groups who initially lauded Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to downsize California WaterFix are worried again By Scott Thomas Anderson State water…
Exiled from asylum
Despite judicial protection order, gay asylum-seeker was deported to a country where his sexuality is illegal. By Scott Thomas Anderson It was 8 a.m. when a…
Taking back the power
Small governments make their stand against PG&E By Scott Thomas Anderson The last light of the year is rising as trucks exit the gates of Nevada…
After the storm
Local scientist recalls harrowing moment in voyage to chart how plastics destroy the oceans By Scott Thomas Anderson Kimberly Wooten was in the hull of…