Little light at the end of the tunnel
Editor’s note: New Sacramento supervisors’ chairperson wants to reopen businesses, but COVID-19 numbers say ‘no’ Sue Frost made her top priority crystal clear as she…
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The roundup: Gun violence, vanity superspreaders and uncaring CARES Act contractor make for rough start to 2021
New year, same social diseases If self-destructive behavior wasn’t contagious before, it sure felt like it during the first, way-too-tragically-eventful week of 2021. A violent…
Reducing the pain on garbage rates
Editor’s note: Sacramento County supervisors give families a break during the pandemic Last month, Sacramento County supervisors put off voting on a garbage rate increase,…
Never forget the #SeditiousGOP caucus
Editor’s note: Republican leaders call for unity and healing after the insurrection they helped encourage There’s lots of talk and commentary about what should happen…
American idiots staged an insurrection. The reviews were terrible.
Jan. 6, 2021—yet another day of the the Trump presidency that will live in infamy A belligerent Trump mob invaded the U.S. Capitol Wednesday to…
As Amazon nets pandemic windfall, Sac’s indie bookstores get a new weapon to compete
Bookshop.org is helping locally owned bookstores from Davis to Auburn disrupt the great disruptor By Scott Thomas Anderson In recent years, a deluge of journalism…
Donald J. Trump, tinhorn dictator
Editor’s note: Cowardly Republicans kowtow to an attempted coup I had no illusions that Donald Trump—a wannabe dictator—would do everything possible to stay in power,…
A nurse shot her boyfriend nine times. Was it self defense or another domestic homicide?
Domestic violence and murder-suicides killed nine people in Sacramento County in 2020 The fact that Shauna Lynlee Giffin shot and killed her son’s father inside…
A long, dark winter of COVID-19
Editor’s note: Sacramento region stays in lockdown as county officials plan how to slow the spread The Sacramento region’s ICU situation isn’t as dire as…
Sacramento’s tenant protections get their first big test
Mass eviction attempt in the River District sparks face-off with city attorney’s office By Scott Thomas Anderson A corporate landlord has been ordered to halt…
Three years after a sheriff’s vehicle paralyzed her, a 12-year-old girl has died
Sacramento County paid $40.7 million to settle claims against its sheriff’s office in 2018 and 2019 A girl who suffered a traumatic brain injury and…
Tenants facing eviction reach back two millennia to symbolize their plight
As the end of California’s eviction moratorium looms, protesters use live animals and a timeless tale By Scott Thomas Anderson On Wednesday evening, a procession…
LowBrau settles labor suit amid pandemic lockdown for restaurants
The Midtown beer hall and East Sacramento’s Mimosa House were each sued last year Two Sacramento restaurants are fending off separate labor lawsuits as California’s…
Will proposed hospital really generate $4 billion for Elk Grove?
Questions raised about financial forecast for suburban hospital project By Scott Thomas Anderson As Elk Grove leaders prepare to vote on a controversial hospital in…
Heroin sales in Sacramento fueled the Aryan Brotherhood’s deadly conspiracy at Folsom State Prison
Conviction in RICO case involves five killings, three attempted assassinations If federal prosecutors have their way, Samuel Keeton will be the first of many dominoes…
CARES Act funding, the sequel
Editor’s note: Sacramento County officials say it’s only bookkeeping, but advocates oppose any federal COVID-19 relief money going to the sheriff or probation After the…
The police eyes in the skies
Police face few limits on operating unmanned aircraft For two years of his life, Sacramento County public defender Joseph Cress had the unenviable task of…