Are Sacramento’s vegans falling in love with their own version of junk food?
By Tyra Willis As vegan options continue popping up across Sacramento, the choice between healthy meals or comfort food is sparking some debate: Burger Patch…
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Sacramento Unified’s plummeting enrollment numbers equal a serious threat to its funding
By Steven Gutierrez The Sacramento City Unified School District is seeing a significant fall in their enrollment numbers over the past few years, a trend…
Bill would allow lawsuits for marketing guns to kids
By Nigel Duara for CalMatters The man at the gun show lifted a 2.2 pound rifle and pulled back the stock with an audible “chock,”…
Crucibles: Sacramento’s District 1 candidates talk mental toughness, overcoming challenges
By Scott Thomas Anderson Between a homeless and housing crisis, jarring violence in the streets and the sustained movement for police reform, the last six…
Essay: Mr. President, it’s time for executive action on mass shootings
By Jim Gonzalez As Joe and Jill Biden emerged from the memorial church service Sunday in Uvalde for the victims of the nation’s most recent…
Vista Nueva makes Natomas the next front in keeping people housed as Sacramento’s affordability crisis intensifies
Officials attempt to deal with the uncertainty of Roomkey initiative winding down By Casey Rafter Staybridge Suites in Natomas was once a landing spot for…
Prose, poetry and the beauty of the Sierra merge in ‘The Paradise Notebooks’
Authors craft a chronicle of their 90-mile trek across Sierra Nevada trails By Frank X. Mullen In “The Paradise Notebooks,” authors Richard J. Nevle and…
The story of an encampment: What happens to those on Sacramento’s streets after they’re forced to move
To unsheltered people caught in the displacement game, promises from city and county workers are plenty – deliveries, they say, are few By Elizabeth Meza…
Live energy and analog edges: Sacramento’s Oh Lonesome Ana looks for new sounds, past connections in debut
After experimental studio days, band plays Starlet Room June 17 to release ‘Megadeth Tee’ album By Casey Rafter Maroon stems and green leaves soaking up…
Vindicating the vanished: Fifteen years after a modern-day gold seeker went missing, detectives across the West close a murder saga
By Scott Thomas Anderson The Yavapai County Sheriff’s cold case unit gathered over a scar chopped into the rocky red earth along a hill. It…
Black foster youth in Sacramento face major housing hurdles once aged-out of the system
By Keyshawn Davis When Amajhalay Williams entered foster care at 5 years old, she left behind what she describes as an abusive mother who struggled…
The struggle to help LGBTQ foster youth aging-out of the system with housing continues in Sacramento
By Ken Magri LGBTQ foster youth in California have a greater likelihood of being undereducated, unemployed and becoming homeless compared to their heterosexual peers. But…
In the wake of bill, Sacramento County works to break the link between homelessness and ‘aged-out’ foster youth
Team of social workers uses Transitional Independent Living Plan to steer older teens toward better outcomes, long-term housing By Ken Magri When the California…
UC system takes another step toward keeping students debt-free
By Mikhail Zinshteyn for CalMatters The University of California is vowing to offer its California undergraduates a debt-free college experience by 2030 as part of…
For LGBTQ+ students in Sacramento’s Christian schools, lack of sexual education creates a black hole of identity and health risks
From dearth of support and absence of basic knowledge, to forced feelings of secrecy, students say their experiences have been challenging By Alex Muegge…
Pressure mounts in Sacramento as Big Ag, Newsom’s corporate donors, prove that voluntary water conservation is a failure
By Dan Bacher Domestic water use in California rose by 19% in March, exposing what Food & Water Watch describes as the “clear failure” of Governor…
The Artists Collective helps Sacramento playwright wrestle with ‘Time of Death’ this May
Group that has been bringing writers, actors and directors together finds home at the city’s Ooley Theatre. Next production runs May 26 thru June 11…