Voting safely
Kings and Sacramento County team up to make Golden 1 Center a polling place for November election Sacramento County voters who want to cast their…
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State task force on homelessness hopes to use pandemic lessons as a catalyst
Mayor Steinberg co-sponsors bill in Legislature to force municipalities to take action Will the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic make California’s homeless crisis even…
Wear a mask
Editor’s note: With little enforcement, will peer pressure be enough for Californians to do the right thing? Gov. Gavin Newsom hoped that public pressure would…
Not too old to learn
Essay: Governor’s proposal to limit age of charter school students closes a door to those in need By Jerry Yamashita Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recently released…
Stat of the week: 3,000 coronavirus deaths
How quickly did California reach grim milestone and why should that give reopen boosters pause? It took more than five weeks—38 days, to be precise—for…
Delta tunnel advisory committee compelled to work through the pandemic
Were COVID-19-related concerns intentionally downplayed to the Delta Protection Committee? Members of a committee designed to ensure Delta communities and tribal groups have their say…
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…
Editor’s note: Public health and privacy
Sacramento County and state public health departments start releasing COVID-19 numbers for nursing homes Nursing homes are hot spots for COVID-19, but until now, good…
Sacramento tries to stop a COVID-19 disaster in its homeless camps
Last week, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg stood by Gov. Gavin Newsom in front of a motel that had recently been converted into a homeless shelter….
Sacramento evictions dropped for nine straight years. That’s about to change.
State and local eviction moratoriums may not be enough to stop a ‘tsunami of evictions and foreclosures’ Despite actions by Gov. Gavin Newsom and local politicians throughout…