Distance learning stinks
Essay: School isn’t as educational not being in the classroom with teachers By Akshaj Mehta I like school. I’ve always been a good student and…
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A costly failure to communicate
Editor’s note: Did dissension damage Sacramento public health’s response to COVID-19? The middle of a deadly pandemic is not a good time for infighting among…
The Golden State Killer is about to vanish again—behind bars
Joseph DeAngelo sentenced to die in prison following days of withering victim statements In his final public moment, Joseph DeAngelo couldn’t muster the courage to…
Bad timing on bonds
Sacramento City Council seeks least painful and risky path to make payments on arena, convention center as pandemic cuts into parking, hotel revenues Local businesses…
Protecting the mail and the election
Essay: During a pandemic and presidential campaign is no time to be messing with the Postal Service By Doris Matsui On Tuesday, I was at…
Homeless in a heat wave
Essay: Sacramento’s unhoused are in even more danger from triple-digit temperatures By Faye Lessler and Crystal Sanchez The current heat wave is a reminder that…
Fire from the sky: Early morning evacuation follows lightning-driven inferno in Nevada County
By Scott Thomas Anderson It started with a sound like the sky splitting open. Around 2 a.m. Monday, a crashing clasp of thunder rattled the…
COVID and crime
Editor’s note: Violence is up during the pandemic and police reform protests America’s cities have been hammered by twin crises—first the COVID-19 pandemic and then…
The people’s budget
Editor’s note: Sacramento activists aren’t waiting for a city charter change to have more say on how tax dollars are spent It’s one of the…
Political battles converge in Sacramento as eviction avalanche looms
While city voters will get to vote on rent control, deferred rent and mortgages in the hands of the state lawmakers By Scott Thomas Anderson…
County ramps up funding to fight COVID-19
Editor’s note: After controversy and confusion, Sacramento County supervisors add $45 million for public health Sacramento County supervisors—with the county under withering criticism for spending…
Wanted: Vote centers
Editor’s note: Sacramento elections officials need more safe polling places for November—and poll workers, too There’s a lot of coverage and consternation—rightly so—about President Trump’s…
California’s most aggressive debt collector sued thousands of customers. Now it says it’s stopping.
The most litigious debt collector in Sacramento County—and possibly California—is retreating from courthouses following an investigation by The Guardian into the company’s aggressive business practices…
Letters: Homelessness, presidential race, COVID spending
The real problem Re: “A matter of life and death” by Bob Erlenbusch (Essay, Aug. 12): Your efforts don’t treat the underlying problem. Homeless don’t…
Creating an alternative to 911
A new Sacramento office is supposed to handle emergency calls instead of police. Bridgette Dean’s job is to make sure it works. Daniel Hahn spoke…
Rent control resurrected
Editor’s note: An initiative to cap rent hikes in Sacramento will be on the November ballot after all. And that could be bad news for…
Environmental groups say Newsom’s water plan will worsen toxic threat in the Delta
Documents continue to reveal big and uncertain spending around Delta tunnel, Sites Reservoir By Scott Thomas Anderson At the end of July, Gov. Gavin Newsom…