Essay: Tax cut worsens housing crisis
The 2017 GOP tax bill undercut a key program By Roberto Jimenez At the worst time for working families, the homeless, disabled veterans, farm workers…
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Suspicious minds
Massages, crushes and betrayal.
Camp Fire illuminates importance of government services
Roll back tax breaks for the rich and stop corporate giveaways—put that money to work improving government services.
Editor’s note: The 99 percent
Sacramento citizens panel pushes for economic justice After watching the first three meetings of the citizens committee that will suggest how best to spend Sacramento’s…
Essay: Toss out the old rules
A congressional candidate says he’s running on new principles By Jeff Burdick In May, I began campaigning as a progressive for Congress in California’s 7th…
Anger management
A man easy to anger is dangerous.
Dispossessed in Sacramento
The home foreclosure crisis revisited.
Editor’s note: Revolving door
Sacramento’s former cannabis chief goes to work for a cannabis company In April, Joe Devlin, the city of Sacramento’s cannabis czar, wrote an essay for…
We can’t all be happy
Accept unhappiness, but not all the time.
People of many faiths come together to build a home
Habitat for Humanity’s Build for Unity project breaks ground on two more homes.
Editor’s note: All in on EVs
Sacramento wants to be America’s electric vehicle capital, but will residents cooperate? Sacramento is betting big on electric cars for lots of good reasons: to…
Essay: ‘I was sickened by what I saw’
Border detention centers are un-American By Doris Matsui “Well run” and “clean.” That’s how President Trump recently described children’s detention centers at the U.S. border….
In the shadow of tyrants
As tensions escalate between an incoherent Trump White House and a confrontational Islamic Republic, an Iranian-American writer considers the revolutions that shaped his destiny Dawdling…
Essay: Make your mark
Young professionals are helping drive Sacramento’s renaissance By Megan Blackwell Sacramento is in the middle of a once-in-a-generation renaissance, and at the heart of it…
Spirituality and religion
Discerning spiritual callings and gifts.
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Editor’s note: Name calling
Controversial developer fights for family honor at Crocker Village park Nothing is ever easy with developer Paul Petrovich’s project in Curtis Park. So why should…