A discount on arena rent?
Editor’s note: If fans aren’t allowed at Golden 1 Center, will the Sacramento Kings ask City Hall for a lower payment? Like almost every entertainment…
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A dangerous time for disarray
Editor’s note: Sacramento County’s leadership is in transition as the COVID-19 pandemic peaks We’re heading into a long, dark winter of COVID-19. So could the…
Local news on life support
Can a bill before Congress keep communities from falling into the dark? By Scott Thomas Anderson “If newspapers die, the crooks won’t cry,” Miami Herald…
Eight kids are owed money for living in a mold-infested complex. Here’s why they don’t have it.
When you’re poor, even the cracks have cracks Thomas H. Citron has $80,000 he literally can’t give away. The Los Angeles attorney secured the money…
For rural counties with state prisons, stopping inmate unemployment fraud is daunting
Rural prosecutors say they don’t have the resources to tackle California’s widening unemployment scheme behind bars Over the last two months, investigators across California determined…
New tactics to save California’s underground water from a warming world
State’s eco future is riding on reimagining how groundwater is recharged, moved and traded By Scott Thomas Anderson For California water districts, 2020 has been…
Doing time for a murder he didn’t commit
Sacramento judge: ‘When [SB 1437] passed … the first case I thought of was Danny Hampton.’ Danny Lashawn Hampton went along for a robbery and…
Sacramento should prepare for a COVID death wave
Infections are soaring around the region. We all know what comes next. If the past is any indicator, the Sacramento region will soon experience the…
University Art’s wholesome image undercut by pandemic-timed eviction effort
Midtown tenants’ claims of neglect are backed up by two UArt employees By Scott Thomas Anderson University Art Center Inc. bills itself as a family-run…
Eviction lawsuits have restarted in Sacramento
Despite a devastating pandemic that stalled the nation’s economy and a third wave of infections that could do so again, court-ordered evictions are starting…
The strangest sheriff’s race: Hunter Thompson’s flight from Northern California led to a groundbreaking campaign
Directors of ‘Freak Power: the Ballot or the Bomb’ discuss bikers, provocateurs and visionary politics Beginning in 1965, an obscure Bay Area reporter embedded himself…
As requests to carry concealed firearms soared, Sacramento’s pro-gun sheriff holstered his approval
A vocal 2nd Amendment proponent, Scott Jones chose gun control over gun rights during the pandemic In a year that saw rising gun violence, surging…
Unsuccessful Sacramento candidate offers president a lesson in concession etiquette
Sacramento County Board of Supervisors District 3 election has been close As Gregg Fishman watched his election night lead shrink with each successive update in…
What Mai Vang’s win means
Editor’s note: The first Asian-American woman on the Sacramento City Council will be a strong progressive voice In an election when Americans elected the first…
Tenants say incompetence, indifference triggered mass eviction in West Sacramento
Gov. Gavin Newsom says COVID-19 threatens housing for Californians, but state inspectors don’t act like it By Scott Thomas Anderson On the day before Halloween,…
Letters: COVID-19 lockdown, election results, county CEO
Boycott restaurants? Re: “Progress lost” by Foon Rhee (Editor’s note, Nov. 10): We really need to start thinking about boycotting the restaurants of these organizations…
COVID for the holidays
Editor’s note: Yolo County narrowly avoided a stricter lockdown. Now, public health officials there and elsewhere are trying to prevent a spike during the holidays….