The Sacramento Bee’s publisher and president, Cheryl Dell, announced on Monday what many already knew was coming: furloughs. Specifically, a majority of full-time Hive staffers…
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Sorry kids, Old Man Government is here to rain on your drunk parade. The same day that a massive Sacramento river party’s “secret” July 13…
F is for federal? A federal lawsuit seeking to halt the closure of seven Sacramento grade schools will get its first day in court Thursday,…
With this morning’s suspected overdose of a 39-year-old woman arrested hours earlier on multiple drug charges, the Sacramento County jail system has tallied the most inmate…
Righteous shooting, bro. Pay no attention to that smoking gun behind the yellow tape. Chastened last month by the Sacramento County Grand Jury, District Attorney…
The trailer for Give Us This Day, a documentary about the triumphs and struggles of Grant High School’s dominant football team and the diverse, at-risk…
Does this hat make me look AWESOME? Having your birthday fall on the same date as a national holiday is sometimes a recipe for tantrums…
Record store The Beat’s marquee had a sad message this week: After 31 years and 19 in Midtown, it will close its doors for good…
History will absolve Ed Snowden. It will not be so kind to an Obama administration that does not welcome him home. The former NSA contractor…
SN&R has acquired the numbers from last January’s homeless count run by Sacramento Steps Forward. In total, volunteers in the city snapshot-count found 2,538 total…
Curse of the monkey’s tail. Cedric Lain Holland might be a parent’s worst nightmare. On May 11, Holland allegedly drove up beside a mother and…
“We get to keep the planes, right?” Twenty years after Mather Air Force Base officially closed, the United States Air Force handed over the…
Sacramento County’s regional parks department put out a reminder this week that spear guns are verboeten at county parks, to which even Ahab might say, “No…
“Yo Ese, you got a problem?” Oh those unruly teenagers. Sacramento police had their hands full with them in the northern part of the city…
An interesting documentary on PBS tonight, called A New State of Mind, will focus on Californians struggling with mental-health issues. (The film debuts at 9…
Yeah, I thought that plastic-bag scene from American Beauty was ridiculous, too. When the kid said “It’s so beautiful,” I couldn’t stop laughing. Anyway, I’m…
Walmart may be anti-woman, but it’s pro-coming-to-Sacramento. Philip Harvey was saying how much he hated Walmart when the earth began to shake. For a…