Sacramento budget battle
Editor’s note: In first major disagreement, new City Council progressives get outvoted on spending priorities It came as little surprise that the first big fight…
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Judge rules that Twin Rivers School District retaliated against whistle-blowing teacher
District administrators told to ‘cease and desist’ interfering with employee’s protected activities and to rescind unjust performance review By Scott Thomas Anderson For more than…
Hurdles for hemp
Editor’s note: Sacramento is relatively friendly to cannabis, but not so much to hemp The city of Sacramento is adding dispensaries for cannabis, but it’s…
Blame game on homeless deaths
Editor’s note: City and county leaders are pointing fingers after winter storm devastates Sacramento’s unhoused In one of his first big moves as mayor, Darrell…
Sign of the times
Editor’s note: Will Sacramento give its blessing to a “Black Lives Matter” sign in a city park? “Black Lives Matter”—the phrase as well as the…
Housing advocates blast Newsom’s plan for COVID-19 rent relief
Groups representing tenants say they were abruptly shut out of negotiations by the governor’s team By Scott Thomas Anderson If Gov. Gavin Newsom wasn’t already…
Rancho Cordova residents rally to save one of the city’s last pieces of open space
Developers want to build over a rare natural hideaway along the American River, but neighbors and conservationists say not without a fight By Scott Thomas…
Sac’s new normal on COVID-19
Editor’s note: Sacramento County needs widespread vaccinations to further ease lockdown Residents of Sacramento County, like many Californians, can be forgiven for feeling whiplash on…
No reason to expand human cages
Essay: Instead of adding a mental health facility to Main Jail, Sacramento County should expand community treatment By Tifanei Ressl-Moyer Inside the building, it smells…
Build back better
Editor’s note: Sacramento refocuses on creating a more inclusive economy, post COVID, but the plan has a curious gap Sacramento’s effort to build a fairer…
The color of COVID
Editor’s note: Studies show that racial disparities in the pandemic go far beyond health The COVID-19 pandemic has hit particularly hard at communities of color…
Former EDD worker from Roseville, Sac probationer among first arrested in billion-dollar unemployment fraud
South Placer woman allegedly took out an unemployment claim under the name of a U.S. senator Prosecutors have started what’s expected to be a years-long…
Free Will Astrology
For the week of Jan. 21, 2021 ARIES (March 21-April 19): On May 4, 2019, my Aries friend Leah woke up in a state of…
Snapshots from the state Capitol
A National Guard soldier stands outside the State Library across from the Capitol on Jan. 16. Gov. Gavin Newsom deployed the California National Guard to…
‘We will not heal and unify with words alone’
Editor’s note: The high points of the inaugural address Joe Biden should deliver I tried my hand at writing a suggested version of Joe Biden’s…
Welcome to COVID jail
Infections are soaring inside Sacramento’s jails—just as advocates predicted A COVID-19 outbreak is sweeping through Sacramento County’s jail system, just as attorneys and advocates for…
Making an impact
Editor’s note: New Sacramento City Council members try to make a difference on housing, COVID and more Katie Valenzuela and Mai Vang aren’t wasting any…