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…
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‘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…
Will Sacramento see a confederacy of traitors?
State capital tenses for violent extremism heading into inauguration week With President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration just days away, state and federal authorities are chasing rumors…
Health officers across Sacramento region brace for COVID-19 vaccinations in rural communities
Isolated seniors and farm workers have priority, but reaching them won’t be easy By Scott Thomas Anderson Drive-through and walk-up vaccination clinics are popping up…
Sacramento’s latest death of man living outdoors echoes in City Hall
Mayor acknowledges homelessness in the city is reaching unimaginable levels during the pandemic By Scott Thomas Anderson It was the type of message George Raya…
Chaos closer to home
Essay: Incendiary rhetoric by politicians is in Sacramento as well as D.C., and it’s not good for our democracy By Jeff Burdick As those of…
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…
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…