‘Young people are fed-up’: Inside the fight to defend young voters
Across the country, activists mobilize to make sure every vote counts. By Frances Madeson, Capital & Main This story is produced by the award-winning journalism…
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For those worried about homelessness and skyrocketing rents in Sacramento County, the stakes for the D5 supervisor race couldn’t be higher
As Moreno, Hume look to replace the board’s famous swing vote, advocates are trying to gauge what they really think about two of the most-pressing…
Know your residents: Why Oakland succeeds in recycling efforts—and how other parts of the state can do the same
The Bay Area has long been on the forefront of recycling—and has served as a state and even national model in terms of starting it early and doing it right. What can other city agencies learn from how the City of Oakland, for example—with one of the most diverse Bay Area populations—created outreach campaigns that work?
For America’s top-ranked CEOs, too much is never enough
A new report has the receipts on our overcompensated corporate titans. By Mark Kreidler, Capital & Main This story is produced by the award-winning journalism…
Linda Villarosa lays bare an uncomfortable truth in U.S. Health Care
Racism, not just poverty and access to care, makes Americans sicker. By Peter Hong, Capital & Main This story is produced by the award-winning journalism…
The startling real-life crimes that inspired Sacramento’s ‘haunted river’ lore
There’s a menacing mythos along the edges of Sacramento’s waterfront, an array of spoken stories reaching from the Delta King’s pilot house to those iron…
The Bodysnatchers
A journalist was able to buy a dead man’s spine for $300, so where are your remains really going when you die? By Josie Klakström…
The Sacramento region grapples with the intersection of wildfires and affordable housing
By Ken Magri After a wildfire is extinguished, there is a natural concern for the environment and what kinds of long-term damage it will sustain….
Analysis: In red-hot Jones-Kiley CA-3 House race, does anyone have homestretch advantage?
By Jeff Burdick, SactoPolitco This story was produced by the Sacramento-based political publication SactoPolitico and co-published here with permission. To describe the CA-3 House race…
Pulse check: growing concern, negative outlook on the future of Sacramento housing
SN&R sent reporters to local neighborhoods to ask people’s views about the housing crisis — here’s what they found By Dina Bugayevskaya, Liam Gravvat, Gavin Hudson,…
Shining a light on the digital divide for seniors
Deficits in technological skills and internet access has left millions of American seniors struggling to navigate the digital world. By Larry Buhl, Capital & Main…
Can the ‘social housing’ model work in Sacramento?
Traction seems to be growing around housing model that’s had success elsewhere in the world By Graham Womack Mai Vang is trying something new. The…
Year after year of smoke-choked skies put Sacramento at the center of the Prop. 30 debate
By Hayley Repetti and Will Smith-Moore Sacramento State student Victor Lozano lives between Lodi’s two major freeways, I-5 and I-99. “It’s a continuous flow of…
Blood and Fire: the saga of a grisly execution that shocked the Delta is finally revealed in court
Rosa Ventura had only been a volunteer firefighter for a year when she confronted the unimaginable. Ventura belongs to a small group of emergency personnel…
Sacramento educators and artists see hopeful horizons for kids with Prop. 28
By Elizabeth Meza and Angela Rodriguez Gabriel Read, director of bands at El Camino Fundamental High school, fell in love with instrumental music when he…
Can SB 9 really help build housing for all in Sacramento?
Proponents say the end of single-family zoning is needed to ease California’s housing crunch By Russell Nichols California’s housing crisis wasn’t built in a day,…
A Q&A with Bill Camarillo, CEO of one of the largest organics recyclers in California, about SB 1383
We continue our SB 1383 series—designed to take a deep dive into the challenges and successes as our state takes on significant organic waste recycling in an effort to save landfills and save our planet.