Rancho Cordova residents rally to save one of the city’s last pieces of open space
Developers want to build over a rare natural hideaway along the American River, but neighbors and conservationists say not without a fight By Scott Thomas…
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Sac’s new normal on COVID-19
Editor’s note: Sacramento County needs widespread vaccinations to further ease lockdown Residents of Sacramento County, like many Californians, can be forgiven for feeling whiplash on…
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…
Former EDD worker from Roseville, Sac probationer among first arrested in billion-dollar unemployment fraud
South Placer woman allegedly took out an unemployment claim under the name of a U.S. senator By Scott Thomas Anderson Prosecutors have started what’s expected…
Welcome to COVID jail
Infections are soaring inside Sacramento’s jails—just as advocates predicted A COVID-19 outbreak is sweeping through Sacramento County’s jail system, just as attorneys and advocates for…
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…
Will Sacramento see a confederacy of traitors?
State capital tenses for violent extremism heading into inauguration week With President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration just days away, state and federal authorities are chasing rumors…
First Vote
Angelica Vera-Franco will be in South Sacramento Jan. 20th, watching live history on TV: the inauguration of Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United…
Sacramento’s latest death of man living outdoors echoes in City Hall
Mayor acknowledges homelessness in the city is reaching unimaginable levels during the pandemic By Scott Thomas Anderson It was the type of message George Raya…
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…
Surviving, digitally
The first exhibition of the year by Art Music Lit Space, Survival Sounds questions what it means to exist digitally during the pandemic During the…
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…
Heart to Art with Joha Harrison
Joha Harrison has spent the past decade photographing the street, but it all started with some giant grapes “There was a store where I grew…
American idiots staged an insurrection. The reviews were terrible.
Jan. 6, 2021—yet another day of the the Trump presidency that will live in infamy A belligerent Trump mob invaded the U.S. Capitol Wednesday to…
As Amazon nets pandemic windfall, Sac’s indie bookstores get a new weapon to compete
Bookshop.org is helping locally owned bookstores from Davis to Auburn disrupt the great disruptor By Scott Thomas Anderson In recent years, a deluge of journalism…
Donald J. Trump, tinhorn dictator
Editor’s note: Cowardly Republicans kowtow to an attempted coup I had no illusions that Donald Trump—a wannabe dictator—would do everything possible to stay in power,…
Free Will Astrology
For the week of Dec. 31, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) carried on a long love affair…