Sacramento very close to passing plastic bag ban
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…
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Apparently not having a Walmart puts Sacramento at 'competitive disadvantage'
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…
The long leg of the law: Sac sheriff plays soccer for a good cause
I’m dying, here. There’s just too much hype and not enough actual soccer taking place in this town, and I can barely contain myself. Thankfully,…
Booze ban gives river partiers good reason for a staycation this Memorial Day weekend
This probably will not be the scene this weekend, but come July, hoo boy. Heading into Memorial Day weekend, all is quiet on the…
Driver busted for being police gatecrasher
If they were trying to get the cops’ attention, they succeeded. Sacramento police arrested two men in separate incidents of weird, harassing behavior. The first…
Sacramento-based U.S. attorney says California's bad weed laws lead to 'free-for-all'
U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner drives a mini-van. This may seem like a strange choice for the region’s top federal prosecutor, hand-picked by President Barack Obama…
Hey, suspect armed with ax, you can't out-run a sheriff helicopter
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department went absolutely Twitter-happy during its first-ever “tweetalong” on May 10. During a roughly four-hour patrol aboard one of the department’s…
Kings are staying! SN&R so lazy, we wrote our story with other journalists' Tweets!
The Kings are staying in Sacramento. SN&R is of course way too busy hustling ping-pong and scarfing Hot Cheetos and Takis to bother spending thousands…
Anti-arena movement finally shows up on eve of big Kings vote
I guess timing matters. Sacramento Kings arena opposition has been crickets, even since late March, when city council approved its arena-subsidy blueprint. But this afternoon,…
Bites on old, new and experimental journalism: Sacramento Press editor goes it alone
By Cosmo Garvin Bites is old, as far as media experiments go. When Capital Bites debuted, Bill Clinton was president and alternative-weekly newspapers made money. You…
Prisons, realignment and the California rehab racket
California realigned its prison system more than two years ago, but rehabilitation is still out of whack By Raheem F. Hosseini Tim Gene Sanders is…
Murder in the Foothills
By Scott Thomas Anderson and Raheem Hosseini It was when he saw the girls’ eyes that Hafed Mohamed Thabet realized what he had become. In…
Default!
Our writer may lose her home to clueless bureaucrats and banks. And she’s not alone. By Rachel Leibrock My mother used to call it the…
Hell’s half-acre
Sacramento’s homeless weigh in: Tent Town’s top 25 tips for surviving the economic downturn By R.V. Scheide The old man wants nothing to do with…
The rise and fall of the American gamecock
Rancher runs afoul of modern society’s disdain for his beloved fowl By R.V. Scheide George Stayner cannot explain why he loves the American game chicken….
The making of a Killer: What turned James Karis Jr. into a cold-blooded murderer? A family tree from hell, for starters …
By R.V. Scheide Sacramento attorney Michael Bigelow should have seen it coming. His client, convicted rapist and murderer James Karis Jr., has been saying it all…
A mother’s prayer
It’s not easy raising kids in Valley Hi, one of Sacramento’s most violent neighborhoods. Just ask Rhonda Erwin. By R.V. Scheide Yea, though I walk…