Without tree cover, urban Californians are hit harder by heat, air pollution
California cities have the least urban tree canopy in the U.S. A Los Angeles housing project shows how residents can transform their environment — if…
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The ‘out of body’ stranger: Investigators reveal night of terror for murdered woman in Land Park
The first firefighter who tried to rush into the house that morning found himself struggling with the door. He could see a key sitting in…
Environmentalists blast Newsom again, this time for ‘streamlining’ Sites Reservoir in the Sacramento Valley
By Dan Bacher Despite strong opposition from indigenous tribes, fishing groups and conservation organizations, Governor Gavin Newsom took action in early November to fast-track the Sites Reservoir…
How an expired pandemic-era policy doubled child poverty rates
The expanded Child Tax Credit cut child poverty rates in half — now they’ve doubled By Russell Nichols In 2021, when federal lawmakers cut child…
Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools
By Carolyn Jones for CalMatters Pushing back against the surge of misinformation online, California will now require all K-12 students to learn media literacy skills…
More than a year after Roe falls, there’s a broader crisis under the flashpoint
By Scott Thomas Anderson It’s been 16 months since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federally protected right to an abortion. Has the public truly…
Sacramento County’s opioid deaths by the numbers
By Will Duvall and Kimberly Gomez Santos The number of deaths due to opioid related overdoses has steadily increased in Sacramento County, with 215 fatalities…
Race for Sacramento’s mayor: An interview with Kevin McCarty
By Lauren Reagan, Idaly Valencia and Gavin Hudson Kevin McCarty says he is running for mayor of Sacramento because he wants to give back and…
Legacies both ragged and rich: Michelle Tea on poverty and the American Family
“Growing up within the poorer half of our country is my history.” By Michelle Tea for The Economic Hardship Project What is family for broke…
Investigations into Facebook, Instagram and Big Pharma are the canaries in the coal mine when it comes to A.I. danger
By Scott Thomas Anderson What’s the best nonfiction read you should dig into this fall? It’s not actually a book, but rather a massive civil…
Housing California’s Policy Director Christopher Martin on ‘adopting solutions at scale’ to move the needle on housing
By Jessica Laskey here’s never a day’s rest for Christopher Martin, policy director for Housing California, a statewide advocacy organization that “works to create a…
After years of battling, work on first massive Klamath River dam removal completed
By Dan Bacher For 20 years there’s been a movement by tribes, fishermen and conservationists to remove the dams on the Klamath River. Those groups…
Lessons from the bust that followed Bill Clinton’s economic boom
Historian Nelson Lichtenstein’s new book details the price we have paid for free trade, deregulation and failed health care reform. By Kelly Candaele, Capital &…
Race for Sacramento’s mayor: An interview with Dr. Flojaune Cofer
By Lucas McMaster, Malachi Parker, Jacob Peterson, Raymond Purscell and Aya Mikbel Public Health Advocate Dr. Flojaune Cofer says she is running for mayor to…
A shortage of teachers for computer science classes puts California near the bottom of a national instruction ranking
By Carolyn Jones for CalMatters Five years ago, California embarked on an ambitious plan to bring computer science to all K-12 students, bolstering the state…
Against ‘poor’ reporting
By Alissa Quart, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project This article was produced with support from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and was originally published there…
Is middle housing the missing piece in Sacramento?
How ‘Missing Middle Housing’ could help the city reach its goals By Ken Magri The task seems Herculean: Sacramento needs to add more than 60,000…