When it rains, it pours
Feeling soggy? With so much late spring rain, this has been an unusual month, bringing some surprises to local gardeners. With temperatures 10 degrees or…
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Living with climate change: Throw a block party
Governments and businesses can still take bold action to limit global warming, but average temperatures are already rising. As climate change worsens, extreme weather will…
Essay: The mayor’s plan for Measure U money is too risky
By Jeff Harris The original Measure U, a half-cent increase in our sales tax rate, was passed in 2012 with the promise that it would…
Editor’s note: A bridge to somewhere
The I Street Bridge is 108 years old and rusty, and it rattles when a train passes over it. So, yes, a new span over…
Succulents grow on you
More gardeners, young and old, are getting into fleshy water-wise plants known as succulents. They’re drawn by succulents’ sculptural good looks and ability to survive…
Climate change consensus
Even with the suffocating smoke from last season’s deadly wildfires fresh in everyone’s minds, perhaps it’s still surprising just how strongly residents of the Sacramento…
A fabulous stroll
A parade of moms, often with their children tagging along, will make its way through Sacramento’s Fabulous Forties neighborhood this coming weekend. It’s their treat….
Editor’s note: Pension politics
This month comes a yearly ritual: the Sacramento City Council holds budget hearings and a parade of interest groups seek more money—the arts, fire, parks,…
Plant adaptations
A half century after hanging ferns and grape ivy seemed to decorate every California kitchen, houseplants are enjoying another moment in the sun. “There’s more…
Brewing change
Despite persistent stereotypes, women are crafting their course in the local beer scene Dressed in maroon overalls and work boots, the head brewer of Crooked Lane…
Fretting over tomatoes
This season in the Big Tomato, our signature crop likely will be a little late. This has not been an easy spring for tomatoes in…
Editor’s note: Don’t get schooled
In the buzz about the Sacramento railyards as the next game-changing development, it’s all about the state-of-the-art medical center, the new county courthouse and, especially,…
Red alert on arts
Sacramento arts advocates sounded the alarm even before City Manager Howard Chan released his 2019-20 budget proposal on Wednesday. It includes $580,000 for the Creative…
Aftershock 2019 lineup announced
Slipknot, Tool, blink-182 headline the hard rock and heavy metal festival, expanded to three days For months, rumors swirled on which bands would play Aftershock,…
Super blooms in the suburbs
Flower lovers don’t have to trek to the hills to see California poppies gone wild. “Super Bloom” has come to Sacramento. Gardeners throughout suburban Sacramento…
Getting away with an almost murder
A vindictive pimp shot two men 40 years ago. Two retired sex workers say they covered it up—and it’s why California needs to pass legislation…
A city of gardeners
We are a community of gardeners. Our love of growing things is greater than our passion for politics or sports, and unites us in ways…