Disaster politics
For California governor battling president’s whims, climate change is about science—not politics Government aid should be a given for communities facing disasters, regardless of the political…
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Living with climate change: What to worry about and when
Governments and businesses can still take bold action to limit global warming, but average temperatures are already rising. As climate change worsens, extreme weather will…
California’s revised use-of-force bill may not put more officers on trial, but supporters say it will ‘save lives’
Law enforcement reform groups debate whether, after changes to California Act to Save Lives, it will do what it promises Don’t misunderstand the consensus forming…
Editor’s note: Sutter Health’s big tax break
Sutter Health has a lot at stake in a groundbreaking antitrust lawsuit that appears headed to a showdown trial: Its market dominance in Northern California,…
The fight for Black Lives Matter Sacramento
With its founder rejecting calls to resign, where does the local chapter go from here? Public accusations of abusive behavior against a leader who won’t…
Gag order
Sacramento garden volunteers are being forced to sign a no-comment agreement A prickly situation has sprung up in Sacramento’s most famous rose garden. Volunteers at…
Living with climate change: Throw a block party
Governments and businesses can still take bold action to limit global warming, but average temperatures are already rising. As climate change worsens, extreme weather will…
Editor’s note: A bridge to somewhere
The I Street Bridge is 108 years old and rusty, and it rattles when a train passes over it. So, yes, a new span over…
Living with climate change: The inevitable and the preventable
Climate change is here. While governments and businesses can still take bold action to limit global warming, temperatures are already on average 1 degree celsius…
A grisly murder. An illegal confession. A 20-year fight to be free.
Two Sacramento detectives denied Tio Sessoms his right to an attorney. So he became his own advocate—in prison. Somewhere in Oklahoma: The walls of the…
Privacy hacks
Democratic lawmakers in California are quietly attacking their own landmark privacy law The California Consumer Privacy Act was hailed as a milestone for reining in…
Climate change consensus
Even with the suffocating smoke from last season’s deadly wildfires fresh in everyone’s minds, perhaps it’s still surprising just how strongly residents of the Sacramento…
Students insist: Not Goodenough
Elk Grove drama teacher resigns the same week SN&R reports student claims of repeated mistreatment An Elk Grove teacher accused of tormenting her drama students…
Editor’s note: Pension politics
This month comes a yearly ritual: the Sacramento City Council holds budget hearings and a parade of interest groups seek more money—the arts, fire, parks,…
White supremacists are trying to recruit college kids, but it’s not the guy you think
A drone pilot with a confused message masks Sacramento State’s real white supremacy threat A man who admitted drone-dropping propaganda over Sacramento last week told…
Rolling job killer
Sacramento boosts automated cars, but what happens to professional drivers? By Scott Thomas Anderson Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg leaned out from the window of a…
They say their teacher abused them. They say their school let it happen.
After backstage drama, Elk Grove teens force a reckoning with the theater teacher they say mistreated them and the school that didn’t stop her Elijah…