Fright night
Editor’s note: Share the thrills, chills and candy, but Halloween can’t be a super-spreader event for Sacramento County Sacramento County didn’t succeed in turning orange…
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Dismantling Stereotypes
We’re here for the kids,” says Roy Casillas, a child support supervisor for Sacramento County Department of Child Support Services. “We’re not here for one…
Waste not, want not
Editor’s note: Sacramento can’t afford to blow the $89.6 million windfall from the feds It’s a godsend that the city of Sacramento received $89.6 million…
A tale of two cities
Editor’s note: Did richer, white voters refuse to help Sacramento’s poor, black and brown kids? The proponents of the March children’s funding ballot measure have…
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…
Snapshots from a pandemic
Brown bear, brown bear. What do you see? This fuzzy, little guy is staying indoors. It’s almost as if this pink fellow is waving at…
Essay: Raising boys in #MeToo era
Teaching respect starts with parents By Sumiti Mehta My husband Sudeep and I have two boys, Atiksh, 8, and Akshaj, 14, and we want to…
Editor’s note: Under the wire
Sacramento City Council beats deadline on cash-for-kids measure, barely More than 39,000 Sacramento voters signed petitions to put a cash-for-kids measure on the ballot, and…
Editor’s note: Slow roll to failure?
Sacramento City Council still hasn’t put cash for kids measure on ballot More than 39,000 Sacramento voters signed petitions to put a cash for kids…
Essay: ‘I was sickened by what I saw’
Border detention centers are un-American By Doris Matsui “Well run” and “clean.” That’s how President Trump recently described children’s detention centers at the U.S. border….
A one-woman, world-famous garden
Huei Young’s backyard oasis in Davis is a labor of love Starting with a bare lot at a new home, Huei Young planted her paradise,…
Editor’s note: Outside money? Not really
A long list of Sacramento groups are pushing a March 2020 ballot measure to lock in more funding for children and youth services. So why…