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A healthy kind of help: Vegan program brought 70,000 meals to the Sacramento area during COVID
Program found a niche reaching undocumented families in need of food By Tyra Willis When Anthony and his dad Don needed help during the pandemic,…
Matsui’s next generation of opponents in Sacramento’s District 7
By Jeff Burdick for SactoPolitico This story was produced by the Sacramento-based political publication SactoPolitico.com and co-published here with permission. CA-7 Congressional candidate Jimmy Fremgen Q&A Congressional…
California has a new law on eviction protections. What does it mean for tenants?
By Manuela Tobias for CalMatters When California legislators voted last June to again extend eviction protections, they promised the third time would be the charm. But…
Sacramento’s worst sunrise: Pre-dawn scenes from a nightmare that left 18 people shot
At least six people are dead, 12 hospitalized, as detectives search for answers By Scott Thomas Anderson Fred Harris woke up just after 2…
Essay: A Sacramento survivor reflects on how new Medi-Cal policies could be devastating for breast cancer patients
By Reverend Tammie Denyse Black women are 41% more likely to die of breast cancer than white women. This fact has not changed in more…
The Crocker chronicles: Actresses will happen even in the best of families
By Kevin Taylor Mrs. Amy Crocker Ashe Gillig – scandal-magnet and renegade daughter of Sacramento’s great philanthropic family – had gathered a circle of Buddhist…
Mutual Housing still under fire in South Sac for alleged harassment, retaliation, displacement
Some tenants are moving out of the affordable housing provider’s units and paying double in rent to escape the site’s manager By Scott Thomas Anderson…
Essay: For Sacramento, the story of women in leadership is getting brighter by the day
By Waverly Hampton III HER-story often repeats herself. That means behind every man’s failure there is a great woman to fix it. When the Founding…
Sacramento lands third permanent housing project to combat homelessness under the Homekey initiative
By Elizabeth Meza A Best Western hotel in Downtown is being converted into permanent housing for people escaping the streets under California’s new program, Homekey….
Audit: California utilities aren’t doing enough to reduce wildfire threats
By Julie Cart for CalMatters As record-breaking drought fuels another potentially dangerous wildfire season, the state auditor reported today that state officials are failing to hold California’s…
A harbinger: Trash and debris, temperatures and a hellacious drought just set the stage for another shocking fish die-off
Requests for permit to clear a waterway within Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge went unapproved long before grotesque salmon discovery By Dan Bacher After a…
The Iron 88: After almost nine decades, Sacramento appreciates the past and ponders the future of Old Ironsides
The venue that launched a thousand bands is now midway through a potential sale By Jennah Booth Kim Kanelos calls herself the “black sheep” of…
Dancing in place: The ups and downs Sacramento’s next generation of dancers faced as California staggered through the pandemic
By Patti Roberts Dance is both a personal and a collective art – live performances a melding of the two. On stage, dancers have a…
On a throwback track: Melissa Etheridge returns to her roots – and the road
By Evan Tuchinsky Before Melissa Etheridge became a Grammy-winning rock star, an Oscar-winning songwriter (for An Inconvenient Truth) and an icon among both cancer survivors and…
Positively comedic: The Body Pozi show at Sacramento’s STAB! Theater sees a host of voices get laughs
By Madelaine Church Derek Dozier recently walked on stage at STAB! Comedy Theater and quickly launched into a story. Dozier, who uses they/them pronouns, told…
California Highway Patrol lags local police, other states in officer body cams
By Byrhonda Lyons for CalMatters It escalated quickly. A California Highway Patrol officer drove slowly behind a man walking on the road. An Arcata Police…