Back Black-owned businesses
Essay: If Sacramento’s Black entrepreneurs succeed through the pandemic, the entire community will thrive By Chris Logsdon As we start Black History Month, I encourage…
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A colossal waste of money
Essay: The $1 billion Capitol Annex Project is not a good deal for taxpayers when the state has more pressing needs By W. Bruce Lee…
Sacramento budget battle
Editor’s note: In first major disagreement, new City Council progressives get outvoted on spending priorities It came as little surprise that the first big fight…
Sign of the times
Editor’s note: Will Sacramento give its blessing to a “Black Lives Matter” sign in a city park? “Black Lives Matter”—the phrase as well as the…
Letters: Development, jail, mental health, Biden, Trump
Lost land Re: “Rancho Cordova residents rally to save one of the city’s last pieces of open space” by Scott Thomas Anderson (News, Jan. 27):…
Thanks, SN&R
From a longtime fan, first-time letter writer My time at SN&R began like a dream. Which is to say there was no beginning. All of…
No reason to expand human cages
Essay: Instead of adding a mental health facility to Main Jail, Sacramento County should expand community treatment By Tifanei Ressl-Moyer Inside the building, it smells…
Build back better
Editor’s note: Sacramento refocuses on creating a more inclusive economy, post COVID, but the plan has a curious gap Sacramento’s effort to build a fairer…
Letters: Biden, Trump, inauguration, insurrection, COVID
No justice, no healing Re: “‘We will not heal and unify with words alone’” by Foon Rhee (Editor’s note, Jan. 19): Where’s the part where…
The color of COVID
Editor’s note: Studies show that racial disparities in the pandemic go far beyond health The COVID-19 pandemic has hit particularly hard at communities of color…
Snapshots from the state Capitol
A National Guard soldier stands outside the State Library across from the Capitol on Jan. 16. Gov. Gavin Newsom deployed the California National Guard to…
‘We will not heal and unify with words alone’
Editor’s note: The high points of the inaugural address Joe Biden should deliver I tried my hand at writing a suggested version of Joe Biden’s…
Making an impact
Editor’s note: New Sacramento City Council members try to make a difference on housing, COVID and more Katie Valenzuela and Mai Vang aren’t wasting any…
Chaos closer to home
Essay: Incendiary rhetoric by politicians is in Sacramento as well as D.C., and it’s not good for our democracy By Jeff Burdick As those of…
The roundup: Gun violence, vanity superspreaders and uncaring CARES Act contractor make for rough start to 2021
New year, same social diseases If self-destructive behavior wasn’t contagious before, it sure felt like it during the first, way-too-tragically-eventful week of 2021. A violent…
Never forget the #SeditiousGOP caucus
Editor’s note: Republican leaders call for unity and healing after the insurrection they helped encourage There’s lots of talk and commentary about what should happen…
Letters: Trump, Capitol insurrection
Trump is responsible Re: “Donald J. Trump, tinhorn dictator” by Foon Rhee (Editor’s note, Jan. 4): Damn right. Trump is directly responsible for what’s happening…