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Bern-ing Sacramento

California hasn’t always mattered in presidential primaries. Bernie Sanders’ rally proves that’s about to change. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ visit to Sacramento last week confirmed…




Essay: Getting on the bus

Sacramento Regional Transit’s new routes aren’t an improvement By Steve Miller Sacramento Regional Transit has announced “service improvements” to its bus network, starting Sept. 8….


Where they stand on impeachment

Sacramento-area House Democrats explain their views on whether to impeach Trump SN&R asked the Sacramento area’s House Democrats for statements on where they stand on…


Endangerment of the species

Conservation groups, state attorney general speak out against plans for Endangered Species Act By Scott Thomas Anderson The Center for Biological Diversity is preparing its…


To impeach or not to impeach

For Democrats and progressives, that is the question The long-simmering debate among Democrats and progressives is about to boil over: To impeach President Donald Trump…


Berniemania 2.0

Bernie Sanders brings his upstart presidential campaign back to Northern California this week Four years after he almost wrested the Democratic presidential nomination from Hillary…



Happy birthday, Stephon Clark

Family of police shooting victim—whose initials are ‘SAC’—points to changes in Sacramento since his death, including a new use-of-force law On Aug. 10, family and…


Collapse of a coalition

Has political orthodoxy and the threat of big money broken up Sacramento’s grassroots renters’ alliance? Scott Thomas Anderson On a February evening, two women sat…



Last refugees in

As Trump administration slashes visas for Afghan and Iraqi allies, airport pickups in Sacramento become a rarer happy occasion DinMohammed clasped his brother, gathered his family…


Hitting RESET on prostitution

Special Sacramento court wants to help sex workers, but faces complex challenges and skepticism about its approach Standing before the judge in a nearly empty…