Essay: Normalizing Mother Nature – women and girls shouldn’t live in shame about their bodies
By Destinee Lang I was 10 and my favorite show was Hannah Montana. I loved Bratz dolls and getting up on Saturday mornings to watch…
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Essay: Gun culture – America’s deadly fasciation is killing us
By Janet Rechtman The other day I woke up with a Carpenters moldy-oldy ear-worming through my brain: We’ve only just begun … Except the words…
Essay: Going green in Sacramento – how to stretch your dollars for a new EV
By Lawrence Lomeli The thought of “going green” on the road while keeping some green in our pockets can turn even the biggest spender a…
Essay: Missing middle trees? The costs of densifying Sacramento with more ‘missing middle’ housing hurts neighborhoods
By Maggie Coulter and Zoe Harrison Sacramento city officials continue to press for the densification of established single-family neighborhoods, ignoring the need for trees and…
Essay: Why I fight – battling the Delta tunnel is about the soul of my community
By Gia Moreno I am a mother, an artist, an educator, and I’m tired. I’m tired of coming to these meetings. I’m tired of hearing…
Essay: Care first, jails last – why a Sacramento County Mental Health Jail annex will only create more trauma, not treatment
By Dr. Corrine McIntosh Sako, Chair of Sacramento County Mental Health Board During the California Psychological Association’s 2022 Convention held here in Sacramento during September,…
Essay: On gaining trust with those out and alone – a Sacramento social worker’s lens
By Holly Calderone “Them are us too,” my friend’s then-teen daughter noted, driving through Sacramento and seeing people living in the streets. This is truer…
Essay: Sacramento voters rejected Measure A’s giveaways and political patronage for a reason
By Brad Branan By standard political measures, a proposed Sacramento County transportation tax should have won approval in this month’s election. Supporters had a truckload…
Essay: ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ and the dumbing down of the 1950s
By Kat SplaneWhen the trailer for “Don’t Worry Darling” first dropped in May of this year, no guesswork was needed as to the film’s genre….
Essay: Sacramento journalist breaks down why Measure A would fund new suburban highways, increase greenhouse gases and super-charge sprawl
By Brad Branan Much like they’ve done at the state capitol, corporations are using “citizen” initiatives to advance agendas previously opposed by politicians. We saw…
Essay: Education naturally – a variety of organizations offer a plethora of outdoor-learning opportunities
By Maggie Nichols As kids head back to school, it’s natural for our minds to meander toward education. Outdoor education has gradually made its way…
Essay: Our meta-gaze and the dawn of ‘Duocracy,’ where Sacramento’s culture, politics and community get ruptured by a digital divide
By Waverly Hampton III Welcome All! Welcome to a world of infinite ones and zeroes! Welcome to a world you have envisioned but never truly…
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…
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…