Essay: More death on the streets, more avoiding the harder questions
Niki Jones, Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee We are in a familiar place. More deaths of people on our streets. More die-ins and press conferences being…
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Can Steinberg be recalled?
Essay: To replace Sacramento’s mayor, organizers must build clear community support and consolidate behind a candidate By James Jackson Efforts to recall Sacramento Mayor Darrell…
Schubert for attorney general?
Editor’s note: Sacramento’s district attorney may have her sights on statewide office Anne Marie Schubert, Sacramento County’s district attorney, pushed hard last year to raise…
Not backing down
Editor’s note: Homeless advocates stand by their message, but disavow violent protest at Mayor Steinberg’s home After widespread coverage and condemnation of a violent protest…
Letters: Twin Rivers schools, homeless, Rancho Cordova
Reference check Re: “Judge rules that Twin Rivers School District retaliated against whistle-blowing teacher” by Scott Thomas Anderson (News, Feb. 2): I have known this…
What is Steinberg’s future?
Editor’s note: A quick primer on the speculation surrounding Sacramento’s mayor Darrell Steinberg was easily elected to four more years as Sacramento’s mayor last March….
Sacramento budget battle
Editor’s note: In first major disagreement, new City Council progressives get outvoted on spending priorities It came as little surprise that the first big fight…
Blame game on homeless deaths
Editor’s note: City and county leaders are pointing fingers after winter storm devastates Sacramento’s unhoused In one of his first big moves as mayor, Darrell…
Build back better
Editor’s note: Sacramento refocuses on creating a more inclusive economy, post COVID, but the plan has a curious gap Sacramento’s effort to build a fairer…
Making an impact
Editor’s note: New Sacramento City Council members try to make a difference on housing, COVID and more Katie Valenzuela and Mai Vang aren’t wasting any…
Sacramento’s latest death of man living outdoors echoes in City Hall
Mayor acknowledges homelessness in the city is reaching unimaginable levels during the pandemic It was the type of message George Raya had been worried he…
On the fast track
The Atrium, a new arts nonprofit, pulls in city money and builds political clout The sunlight is fading on the Old Sacramento waterfront as a…
A living quilt
A Santa Rosa-based artist creates an inspirational flower bed in Sacramento’s Sojourner Truth Park This “quilt” was sown, not sewn. Threaded with double meanings, it’s…
Take a ‘Friday Art Break’
Today, Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s Office of Civic Engagement unveiled “Friday Art Break,” a weekly video series intended to keep Sacramentans in touch with the community’s artists while traditional arts venues are shuttered as a part of COVID-19 precautions.
What Mai Vang’s win means
Editor’s note: The first Asian-American woman on the Sacramento City Council will be a strong progressive voice In an election when Americans elected the first…
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….
Checking out
Sacramento City Hall continues to lose Black managers despite diversity efforts On paper at least, this city of Sacramento employee seems to have a great…