Drought and mosquitoes
As the weather warms, it’s time to think again about conserving water and controlling pests The weather is getting warmer and the days longer, luring…
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Not your ordinary nonprofit
By Edgar Sanchez Christmas 2019 came early for Julius Thibodeaux. Fifteen days before the holiday, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg announced during a City Council meeting…
Editor’s note: Climate change and coronavirus
Sac and West Sac mayors join the call for a green post-pandemic recovery plan Today is the 50th annual Earth Day, but a very different…
Sac’s independent bookstores try to soldier on, survive the lockdown
By Scott Thomas Anderson In exploring the life of author C.S. Lewis, who saw the imaginative possibilities in books even during his moments of suffering,…
Danger zone for voters
Editor’s note: During COVID-19 pandemic, Democrats push to ensure safe election in November You probably saw the scenes on April 7 of Wisconsin voters having…
Stay-at-home high
Smoking cannabis is not recommended by the CDC,low-dose edibles are its smokeless replacement The coronavirus pandemic has inspired cannabis users to reevaluate the risks of…
Big Day, daily need
When nonprofits need cash now, what’s the incentive to wait for Big Day of Giving? Each year on the first Thursday in May, roughly 600…
The roundup: Restaurants of the near future, a domestic violence ‘wave’ and what happened to that stolen COVID-19 sample
It’s been (another) hectic week. Here’s some news you might have missed. Table for one, please California’s chief good news/bad news breaker, Gov. Gavin Newsom,…
Now, that’s Moxie
Southern California cannabis company donates a portion of its proceeds to end the tiger trade seen in the popular Netflix docu-series Tiger King The Netflix…
A pandemic budget
Businesses are closed. Sales taxes are plummeting. But Sacramento officials don’t plan service cuts. It’s budget season at Sacramento City Hall, and in normal times…
Fair-weather fair targets homeless
Portraying unsheltered residents as disease-carrying drug addicts, El Dorado County Fair shows unfriendly side in shelter debate Organizers of the El Dorado County Fair are…
The land before ‘Lady Bird’
For better or worse, there’s more to Sacramento movies than Lady Bird. I saw Greta Gerwig’s 2017 Lady Bird at the Tower Theater with a…
Concerns grow in City Hall over the mental health toll of COVID-19 and the lockdown
By Scott Thomas Anderson For Sacramento Mayor Pro Tem Angelique Ashby, the jarring news flooded in from different directions: Police, school officials, parents, neighbors. It…
When children take the stand
Thirty years after the Supreme Court allowed child victims to testify through live video, Sacramento still makes them face the ones who allegedly hurt them…
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Free Will Astrology
For the week of April 9, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Moses did 40 years of hard work on behalf of his…
Growing cannabis during coronavirus
‘Homegrown’ flowers can supplement efforts to stay in supply The coronavirus stay-at-home orders bring back memories of my younger days, when trying to find good…