Labor scores a victory at Sac State and other CSU campuses
Rejecting years of unequal treatment, 20,000 low-paid California State University student assistants and workers vote to organize. By Mark Kreidler, Capital & Main This story…
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Forever murders and facing those ‘taken in darkness’
Working on the crime podcast ‘Trace of the Devastation’ meant revisiting events some would rather forget. But is forgetting them even possible? By Scott Thomas…
US Media is collapsing: Here’s how to save it
With mass layoffs tearing through US media, here is what we need to save a crucial journalistic ecosystem. By Alissa Quart, Economic Hardship Reporting Project The…
Jealousy. Abuse. Stalking. An end. What led to the tragedy at House of Oliver
By Scott Thomas Anderson In Placer County’s main courthouse, just past its front metal detector, there is a document pick-up area with stacked metal baskets….
MinervaVerse set to invest in Sacramento’s women and minority-led businesses
By Hannah Ross In Roman lore, Minerva, goddess of wisdom, commerce and arts, was born out of Jupiter’s head, split with a hammer to release…
Coordinated Access System creates one ‘front door’ for Sacramentans in need of shelter
By Marie-Elena Schembri In 2023, the city of Sacramento ranked in the top three U.S. cities for percentage of unsheltered homeless individuals and families and…
Beauty in the eyes of the community: Nonprofit focuses on making unhoused people ‘feel inherently beautiful’
Beauty 2 The Streetz visits Sacramento to provides local homeless with beauty supplies, essentials By Katerina Graziosi Dusk falls as Shirley Raines sits at the…
California plans to eliminate a healthful-food program that has served both farmers and low-income residents
The state has matched fruit and vegetable purchases at farmers markets for low-income residents for seven years. That may soon end. By George B. Sánchez-Tello,…
‘It’s constant questioning:’ Black families disproportionately represented in Sacramento’s unhoused population
By Sterling Davies Airrea Craven, 24, has just secured a hotel with government funds for her and her two daughters to stay for the week,…
More than half of Californians skip or delay medical care due to cost
For many, premiums and deductibles now take three times more out of one’s budget than 20 years ago, UC Berkeley study shows. By Mark Kreidler,…
A picture worth a thousand comments: Sacramento’s artists speak out against new Wide Open Walls project
Community members rally against ‘superficial stereotypes’ in mural project By Hannah Ross Wide Open Walls is finally having its day of reckoning, according to many…
The platforms, priorities and campaign funding in Sacramento’s District 4 city council race
By Scott Thomas Anderson The lines for Sacramento’s District 4 have been redrawn and local politicos are waiting to see what that means for representation…
Parents’ lawsuit forces California to spend $2 billion on learning loss. Here’s what will change
By Carolyn Jones for CalMatters California schools will have to spend $2 billion of their remaining Covid relief funds on tutoring and other measures to…
Power Play: No limits mean PG&E may raise rates again for Northern and Central Californians
A $33 a month average rate hike took effect Jan. 1. Now PG&E wants up to $20 a month more. Reformers say it is time…
Area nonprofit Fitrah teaches youth life skills through bookselling business
By Keyshawn Davis Several years ago, Nadia Niazi met a woman who had been homeless for 19 years. For Niazi, the experience proved life-altering as…
Why California legislators of both parties want to ban homeless encampments
By Lynn La for CalMatters Describing California’s homelessness crisis as “inhumane” and “unhealthy,” Senate GOP leader Brian Jones of San Diego and Democratic Sen. Catherine…
New GSEC initiative seeks to strengthen Sacramento’s entrepreneurial ecosystem
By Hannah Ross The Greater Sacramento Economic Council has launched a new partnership with the Sacramento Entrepreneurship Growth Alliance that will work to enhance the…