Essay: Understanding environmental justice in Sacramento
By Jennifer Junghans For many middle-class and affluent communities with resources, political power and representation, a day at the local park among mature trees, a…
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Our land of light, sound and soul
By Scott Thomas Anderson California remains the world’s fifth-largest economy and one of the most culturally diverse places on earth. Our north side of the…
Essay: Spotify’s CEO just made me throw up in my mouth
By Katie Knipp I am someone that really enjoys spreading positivity around. It makes life so much lovelier than spreading any kind of negativity. However,…
Essay: Sutter’s treatment of its frontline mental health workers is unacceptable
By Katie Valenzuela When we think of mental health providers, someone like Kenisha Campbell probably doesn’t come to mind, but she and her colleagues play…
No, the Isleton Crawdad Festival is not leaving Isleton
Some confusion has engulfed the internet about where the most-historic crawdad festival in the West is happening this summer; and despite conflicting reports, the action…
Project Censored dispatch: The press freedom case of the century
As the official case against Assange stagnates, an international movement to free him has only grown stronger By Kevin Gosztola This editorial was originally published…
Analysis: Lawmakers trying to save California journalism collide with Google’s priorities
By Scott Thomas Anderson When I recently published a column about Google’s complacency in allowing click-baiters to gaslight the public with Artificial Intelligence – including…
Analysis: Big Tech’s complacency in bad actors using A.I. to gaslight American news consumers
By Scott Thomas Anderson A couple of months ago, newsrooms began discovering that the algorithm for Google News is now boosting articles that are plagiarized…
Here’s to the freaks
By Scott Thomas Anderson On the advice of SN&R’s publisher, I just read the new book “The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History…
Essay: Repealing Prop. 47 is a misguided battle cry. It won’t make California safer
By Lanaisha Edwards for CalMatters Fourteen years ago, my younger brother, Vinnie Edwards, was fatally shot as he left football practice at his college. Six…
Forever murders and facing those ‘taken in darkness’
Working on the crime podcast ‘Trace of the Devastation’ meant revisiting events some would rather forget. But is forgetting them even possible? By Scott Thomas…
US Media is collapsing: Here’s how to save it
With mass layoffs tearing through US media, here is what we need to save a crucial journalistic ecosystem. By Alissa Quart, Economic Hardship Reporting Project The…
Essay: Let’s talk about improving Sacramento’s election system
By Steve Cohn and Paula Lee Photograph by Michael Kahn With the Primary Election rapidly approaching, Sacramento voters will be bombarded with political mailers, emails,…
Essay: What is a Conservative? Understanding how the term works in American politics
By John Patrick Leary The evergreen questions raised by the label “conservative” are: Conserving what and from whom? Let’s dispense with one popular answer to…
Essay: Working out the personal and political in paint with Shiva Ahmadi
By Jeffrey Day Shiva Ahmadi’s art encompasses and expresses her personal and political concerns, anxieties, fears and joys. But her art is not polemical nor…
How everyday people can invest in the area’s vulnerable children
By Lisa Thibodeau The day before Thanksgiving last year, I went to family court in Placer County for the 6-year-old child to whom I am…
Essay: A tribute to my 10-year-old student lost to gunfire
By Laury Masher Olson An unthinkable tragedy has struck our school community: A ten-year-old student was shot and killed by another 10-year-old who allegedly had…