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…
Read MoreBy 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…
Read MoreBy Marcel Gemme, addiction treatment specialist Deadly overdoses have spiked among teens even as overall drug use has seemed to drop with them. Researchers from…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…