Shop local—it’s more important than ever
Essay: Sacramento can roar back from the COVID-19 recession if we support small businesses By Sean Loloee In the mid-19th century, Sacramento was founded on a…
Read MoreBusinesses adapt to COVID-19
Documenting dystopia
Sacramento Is Dead fights against a boosterish view of California’s capital city.
The vaccination race
Editor’s note: Will enough Sacramento County residents get their COVID-19 vaccines before variants wreak havoc? We’re in a race between more contagious COVID-19 variants and…
Back Black-owned businesses
Essay: If Sacramento’s Black entrepreneurs succeed through the pandemic, the entire community will thrive By Chris Logsdon As we start Black History Month, I encourage…
Little light at the end of the tunnel
Editor’s note: New Sacramento supervisors’ chairperson wants to reopen businesses, but COVID-19 numbers say ‘no’ Sue Frost made her top priority crystal clear as she…
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…
Desperate measures
Editor’s note: Facing an unrelenting COVID-19 surge, Sacramento County supervisors consider fining businesses that endanger public health With no end in sight to the latest…
Local news on life support
Can a bill before Congress keep communities from falling into the dark? “If newspapers die, the crooks won’t cry,” Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr….
Letters: COVID-19 lockdown, election results, county CEO
Boycott restaurants? Re: “Progress lost” by Foon Rhee (Editor’s note, Nov. 10): We really need to start thinking about boycotting the restaurants of these organizations…
COVID for the holidays
Editor’s note: Yolo County narrowly avoided a stricter lockdown. Now, public health officials there and elsewhere are trying to prevent a spike during the holidays….
Progress lost
Editor’s note: Sacramento County goes backwards on COVID-19 and must limit indoor businesses again Sacramento County took a significant step backwards Nov. 10 in its…
Sacramento languishing in COVID limbo
Editor’s note: Sacramento County is backsliding in effort to reopen more businesses Everyone is focused on Election Day, and for good reason. But it shouldn’t…
Drive stalls in the red zone
Editor’s note: Sacramento County misses the COVID-19 mark, again, so must wait to reopen more businesses Sacramento County wanted to move to orange by Halloween,…
COVID fatigue and division
Editor’s note: A new poll and public comments indicate growing distrust of local officials and opposition to the lockdown Many of us have COVID-19 fatigue…
Turning Sacramento orange
Editor’s note: County isn’t going to make its goal of reopening more businesses by Halloween, and top officials may have violated COVID-19 safety rules Sacramento…
Is honor system enough?
Editor’s note: Sacramento County Public Health is counting on businesses to follow COVID-19 safety rules with little enforcement Sacramento County public health officials are trying…
How fast to reopen during COVID-19?
Some Sacramento County officials call for more flexibility in COVID-19 rules, while some residents call for an end to ‘tyranny’ Sacramento County reached the less…