Could shared homeownership work for Sacramento?
It could be on the rise in the Capital Region through apps such as Cher By Graham Womack Roshaun Davis is looking around Sacramento for…
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A step toward Oak Park deserting its ‘food desert’ status
By Elizabeth Meza Oak Park residents are getting groceries at better prices without driving outside the neighborhood due to the recent opening of a new…
Sign of the times
Editor’s note: Will Sacramento give its blessing to a “Black Lives Matter” sign in a city park? “Black Lives Matter”—the phrase as well as the…
Improving Aggie Square
The news spread like wildfire in April 2018: A site near Sacramento’s Oak Park district had been chosen for Aggie Square, a megaproject that promised…
Aggie Square
In mid-2018, Bill Motmans received an invitation he couldn’t refuse. The Tahoe Park resident was asked to serve on a committee that would help guide…
No More Broken Promises
Federal stimulus funds must be used to immediately address the suffering among the city’s most vulnerable communities Note: The following does not reflect the opinion…
Fresh from Oak Park
Celebrating its 11th year, the Oak Park Farmers Market returns with health and safety measures in place When Food Source permanently closed in March, a…
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…
Streetalk
Asked in Oak Park, near Broadway and 34th: How has gentrification affected you? “Actually, it hasn’t had an effect on my life. … Anywhere I’m…
Oak Park’s perpetual identity crisis
One of Sacramento’s oldest neighborhoods is constantly reckoning with an uncertain future By Brandon Jetter Robbin Ware has called Oak Park home for nearly 20…
Innovation without gentrification?
The promise and pitfalls of Aggie Square in Oak Park The housing crisis came for Tanya Faison on Dec. 13. That day, the founder of…
The loss of third space
Stay at home order puts neighborhood gatherings on hold By Lindsay Oxford In February at Oak Park’s monthly Fix-it-Café, sewing machines whirred at one table…
The problem with K.J.’s comeback
Sacramento didn’t author Kevin Johnson’s political downfall. Will the city support the accused molester’s makeover as a celebrity restaurant owner? By Raheem F. Hosseini and…