Piling on during the pandemic?
Editor’s note: Sacramento County puts off a hike in garbage rates for now, listening to COVID-19 fatigued residents. The city of Sacramento is also looking…
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Desperate measures
Editor’s note: Facing an unrelenting COVID-19 surge, Sacramento County supervisors consider fining businesses that endanger public health With no end in sight to the latest…
Newsom launches rescue efforts for small businesses as new lockdown announced
More local governments are asserting independence from state’s edicts in the wake of court rulings, PR nightmares By Scott Thomas Anderson Small businesses across the…
A discount on arena rent?
Editor’s note: If fans aren’t allowed at Golden 1 Center, will the Sacramento Kings ask City Hall for a lower payment? Like almost every entertainment…
A dangerous time for disarray
Editor’s note: Sacramento County’s leadership is in transition as the COVID-19 pandemic peaks We’re heading into a long, dark winter of COVID-19. So could the…
Local news on life support
Can a bill before Congress keep communities from falling into the dark? By Scott Thomas Anderson “If newspapers die, the crooks won’t cry,” Miami Herald…
Sacramento should prepare for a COVID death wave
Infections are soaring around the region. We all know what comes next. If the past is any indicator, the Sacramento region will soon experience the…
University Art’s wholesome image undercut by pandemic-timed eviction effort
Midtown tenants’ claims of neglect are backed up by two UArt employees By Scott Thomas Anderson University Art Center Inc. bills itself as a family-run…
Eviction lawsuits have restarted in Sacramento
Despite a devastating pandemic that stalled the nation’s economy and a third wave of infections that could do so again, court-ordered evictions are starting…
Tenants say incompetence, indifference triggered mass eviction in West Sacramento
Gov. Gavin Newsom says COVID-19 threatens housing for Californians, but state inspectors don’t act like it By Scott Thomas Anderson On the day before Halloween,…
Letters: COVID-19 lockdown, election results, county CEO
Boycott restaurants? Re: “Progress lost” by Foon Rhee (Editor’s note, Nov. 10): We really need to start thinking about boycotting the restaurants of these organizations…
COVID for the holidays
Editor’s note: Yolo County narrowly avoided a stricter lockdown. Now, public health officials there and elsewhere are trying to prevent a spike during the holidays….
Progress lost
Editor’s note: Sacramento County goes backwards on COVID-19 and must limit indoor businesses again Sacramento County took a significant step backwards Nov. 10 in its…
Sac County CEO under siege
Editor’s note: Public health officials join those calling for Nav Gill to be fired Sacramento County’s public health officer and several other health officials are…
Sacramento languishing in COVID limbo
Editor’s note: Sacramento County is backsliding in effort to reopen more businesses Everyone is focused on Election Day, and for good reason. But it shouldn’t…
Closing time?
Editor’s note: California’s struggling restaurants appeal to diners for support, while suing governments over fees California’s struggling restaurants have two major efforts on their menu…
California rent control battle finishes under shadow of billionaires’ wealth jumping 45% during the pandemic
Grassroots volunteers fight for Prop. 21 in the face of $80 million opposition campaign By Scott Thomas Anderson For the third time in three years,…