COVID-19 cover?
Critics cry foul as Sacramento passes embattled telecommunication plan with public’s voice lowered by lockdown By Scott Thomas Anderson Last year, Sacramento City Hall was…
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Complications of COVID-19
Likely delay in 2020 Census will push back new election districts and perhaps 2022 primary
Stopped in their tracks
Amid COVID-19, Sacramento Roller Derby’s permanent home is on hold.
Snapshots from a pandemic
Stay home. Stay healthy. Near the 48th Street crossing Interstate 50overpass. (Photo courtesy of Charlene Jones)
Your weekend binge list
Kill some time with the ’90s Bulls, classic sci-fi and weird Tom Hanks art It’s been an impossibly long week, hasn’t it? And in these…
Letters: COVID-19, mental health, bookstores, etc.
A place to be heard Re: “15 Minutes: David Bain, executive director of NAMI Sacramento” by Lindsay Oxford (15 Minutes, April 23): NAMI Sacramento is…
Pox populi
Opinion: More than 1,000 COVID-19 doubters protested California’s stay-home order. (It’s unclear how many brain cells attended.) Like too many of us, the main figure of…
Setting up shop
The Ali Youssefi Project has announced two new artists for its residency program
Free Will Astrology
For the week of April 23, 2020 By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the future, when the coronavirus crisis has a diminished power…
15 Minutes: David Bain, executive director of NAMI Sacramento
A local mental health organization offers resources and advice for managing stress and anxiety in tough times.
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…
Snapshots from a pandemic
Yard signs of the times, in East Sac (Photos by Foon Rhee)
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…
Hidden hot zones
COVID-19 outbreaks in hundreds of California nursing homes was ‘an expected disaster’ Six residents of a Woodland nursing home are dead from a coronavirus outbreak…
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…
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…