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By Jacob Waters Clever apps can soothe life’s minor annoyances, but there’s always someone paying for our convenience. And that’s a problem. Some of these…

Last weekend saw the 24th annual High Sierra Music Festival up in Quincy, and all the stompin’ bluegrass, guitar legends, dreadlocks and oxytocin that came…

By Haley “Graph” Massara As a left-leaning teenager, I fantasized about moving far away from Granite Bay—that bourgeoisie zit of a town on the nose…

By Julie Mumma If you are poor and conspire to rob a fake stash house, go directly to jail. If you are Goldman Sachs and…

Oh, really? [Courtesy of sarachicad.]   On Tuesday, I voted in the same classroom I’ve cast ballots in since 2008. On the white board, someone had…

Trombone Shorty played an electrifying Friday-night set. by Paul Piazza The Sacramento Music Festival transformed Old Sacramento into the musical and party center of the…

By Jacob Waters Pity the intermodal container. Freight containers that could be moved easily from boat to train to truck—“intermodal,” in industry jargon—only became standard…

By Jan Ellen Rein & Mark Dempsey Environmental law needs a democratic makeover. Nationwide and locally, Move to Amend is mobilizing support for constitutional amendments to…

Two weeks ago, I wrote a short news item about two golfers who got into club-swinging throwdown with each other over a skipped turn. When…

Sometimes you just need a good stranger in your life to shake things up. Mine arrived a couple weeks ago. He wore a hooded sweatshirt,…

By Scott M. Bruner “In a democracy, people get the government they deserve.” —Alexis de Tocqueville It doesn’t matter if you chant Neil Young while…

By Tiffany Fraser and Lisa Wrightsman We coach the Sacramento Lady Salamanders, a Street Soccer USA program that helps women break the cycle of homelessness, addiction…