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,…
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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…
Oak Park community members come together for a talk focused on anti-gentrification and displacement efforts around Aggie Square
While promising to boost local health care and tech economies, UC Davis’s Aggie Square project raises concerns for Oak Park community By Keyshawn Davis Discussions…
Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency’s La Shelle Dozier on the role of policy, funding and public perception of affordable housing
By Keyshawn Davis In 1982, Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency was formed by the city and county as a joint powers authority. These local governments…
Regional Tribal Environmental Coalition challenges State Water Board on Bay-Delta Plan
By Dan Bacher As the Delta Smelt has become virtually extinct in the wild – and as spring-run, winter-run and fall-run Chinook salmon populations on the…
In California’s housing crisis, a senior fights to keep his place in the world
Facing eviction after 30 years, Mike Balog says moving out would mean losing his community, part of his identity and having nowhere else to go….
New cannabis dispensaries bring Sacramento closer to reaching social equity goals
By Ken Magri Maisha Bahati stands proudly inside her new storefront. “We took so many risks,” she says. After four years of hard work and…
A dead cellphone, $27 in cash and nowhere to turn
Migrants released by ICE after dark often must rely on the kindness of strangers and sheer luck or risk spending long nights on the street….
Californians want to use Zoom for court appearances. Will lawmakers let them?
By Ryan Sabalow for CalMatters Since the pandemic, Democratic state Sen. Tom Umberg has joined hundreds of thousands of California’s lawyers, plaintiffs, defendants and witnesses…
Community organizer Hazel Watson on the power of relationship-building as a pathway to stronger communities
By Hannah Ross Hazel Watson has over seven years of experience networking and advocating on important issues within the Sacramento community from housing and homelessness…
Counting Sacramento’s homeless: Volunteers set out across region for biennial Point-In-Time Count
By Chris Nichols and Keyshawn Davis Heather Coffman says she left her home nearly two decades ago to escape the domestic violence that shattered her…