Essay: Mr. President, it’s time for executive action on mass shootings
By Jim Gonzalez As Joe and Jill Biden emerged from the memorial church service Sunday in Uvalde for the victims of the nation’s most recent…
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Essay: Avoiding the fentanyl-opioid conversation with teens is a recipe for tragedy
By Marcel Gemme, addiction treatment specialist Deadly overdoses have spiked among teens even as overall drug use has seemed to drop with them. Researchers from…
Essay: The city, county, state and federal governments are now working together to increase low-income housing
By Roberto Jimenez Here we go again – another report that puts an exclamation point on Sacramento’s affordable housing crisis. According to the latest National…
Essay: My family left Soviet Union-era Ukraine to find freedom – today, we must welcome those doing the same
By Anya Starovoytov, Woodland resident My father shared a story with me recently about his adolescence in Ukraine, which was then part of the Soviet Union….
Essay: Midterm roundup – why the media apathy?
By Jeff Burdick for SactoPolitico This story was produced by the Sacramento-based political publication SactoPolitico.com and co-published here with permission. Many items in this midterm election roundup…
Essay: A Sacramento survivor reflects on how new Medi-Cal policies could be devastating for breast cancer patients
By Reverend Tammie Denyse Black women are 41% more likely to die of breast cancer than white women. This fact has not changed in more…
Essay: For Sacramento, the story of women in leadership is getting brighter by the day
By Waverly Hampton III HER-story often repeats herself. That means behind every man’s failure there is a great woman to fix it. When the Founding…
Essay: Homeless crisis in Sacramento demands the ‘urgency of now’
By Jim Gonzalez All over California, the term “state of emergency” has become the operative description of our homelessness crisis. In Los Angeles, billionaire developer…
Essay: Three years ago, one of Sacramento’s working-class heroes was murdered at a library – don’t let it be in vain
By Kelly Clark It’s been more than three years now since my wife Amber was senselessly murdered. Three years since she was shot 11 times…
Essay: Sacramento must be faster with surplus land and slower to give developers their wish lists
By Waverly Hampton III There are dozens of parcels of city-owned land across Sacramento waiting to be developed on, in the midst of a major…
Essay: Democracy and déjà vu
By Janet Rechtman In the fall of 1991, my mom and I went on a Friendship Force trip to Moscow. It was six years after…
Essay: Delving into plague stories
By Holly Calderone Having spent the entire COVID-19 pandemic engaged in hospice social work, I avoided reading plague stories. But a return from New York…
Essay: Recall rumors in Sacramento show some older democrats are living in ‘Groundhog Day’
Moves behind the scene against Katie Valenzuela are symptomatic of a party resisting its new blood By Waverly Hampton III It is physically impossible to…
Essay: the PCT Effect, or healing and inspiration on the Sierra’s greatest trail
One of SN&R’s contributing writers contemplates what the great outdoors can do for a couple overcoming a health battle By Mark Heckey I was breathing…
Essay: Sacramento Poor People’s Campaign demands filibuster end for the sake of local families
By Faye Wilson Kennedy and Dr. Pamela Anderson If our democracy is to survive, the filibuster must end now. Since 1841, the filibuster has been…
Essay: Folsom’s ‘Negro Bar’ should be renamed, but the contributions of Black pioneers shouldn’t be forgotten
In 2018, Phaedra Jones did not know much about Folsom. She accepted a delivery assignment from her employer, UberEATS, bringing food from Stockton to the…
Essay: CEQA can increase affordable housing in Sacramento while protecting communities
By Ralph Propper, President of the Environmental Council of Sacramento The City of Sacramento signed a deal this summer to build a U.C. Davis campus…