Sacramento officials remove aid disparity for foster families
An equitable family is a happy family. When Sacramento County’s Child Protective Services removed Cynthia Baldwin’s two grandchildren from their parents’ home last year,…
Read MoreAn equitable family is a happy family. When Sacramento County’s Child Protective Services removed Cynthia Baldwin’s two grandchildren from their parents’ home last year,…
Read MoreSacramento County law enforcement agencies spent the week lobbying elected officials for increased budgets to implement expansive strategic plans. Sacramento police Chief Samuel Somers Jr….
Is there a connection between the pro-life lobby and anti-vaxxers? When it comes to California’s controversial Senate Bill 277, at least, the answer is yes….
Riding light-rail with police Lt. Norm Leong can be a lonely experience. Outfitted in his dress blues and greeting every passenger who boards an afternoon…
Francine Tournour directs the city of Sacramento’s Office of Public Safety & Accountability. Good watchdogs are hard to find, apparently. As it seeks to…
An unlikely family reunion is transpiring on the Sacramento Valley Station light-rail train. It’s Friday, May 1, and I’m looping up and down the Gold…
Two area cops came down with a case of the Mondays, following separate FBI announcements on May 4. According to a news release summarizing a…
Kids love science … or holograms. Students from Sacramento’s Mira Loma High School edged out 67 other high schools from around the country during…
Sacramento law enforcement is under scrutiny following the rough arrest of two black teens at a light-rail station, which went viral Sunday night and drew…
By Steph Rodriguez The Midtown Business Association met earlier this month to discuss problems some merchants are having with a recently relocated homeless youth provider….
One time I was driving about 35 mph through a residential neighborhood when a suicidal squirrel that had safely crossed the street deliberately doubled back…
Undocumented immigrants have been going without health care coverage in Sacramento County since budget-strapped officials cut off that aid in 2009. Nearly six years later…
By Brooke Purves Families waiting to get into a housing voucher program may have to be extra patient. In its annual study, the U.S. Department…
By Brooke Purves Vapers beware: Senator Mark Leno recently introduced a bill to classify electronic cigarettes containing nicotine as a tobacco product, and regulate them…
By Brooke Purves California joined an elite list of states last month in requesting protection of its nearly 140,000 homeless residents from discriminatory law enforcement…
The city of Sacramento doesn’t formally evaluate its 20 departments, including those providing police and water services, but wants to start doing so in the…
By Brooke Purves Russell Bartholow says he was arrested or cited hundreds of times during the 15 years he lived under a bridge in Oak…