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Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’ may be the first great movie of our terrible Trump era There’s a scene in Spike Lee’s new Vietnam epic…
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What do we pay the sheriff for anyway?
Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office struggles to clear violent crimes as supervisors hear ‘defund’ message Despite receiving a lion’s share of county revenue, the Sacramento County…
Medical workers walk out over Sacramento jailers’ refusal to wear masks
UC Davis Med pulls mental health residents over COVID-19 concerns UC Davis Medical Center pulled its psychiatry residents from the Sacramento County Main Jail on…
What belongs in Sacramento’s 2020 time capsule?
2020 has been such an eventful (read: traumatizing) year already that we’re predicting it’ll be pretty difficult to explain to future generations. So we asked…
This is your moment
2020 is showing us that progress doesn’t trickle down from the top—it’s carried upward by the many at the bottom The deepest civil unrest in…
Legal marijuana results in illegal search
Sacramento officers needed more than defendant’s admission he possessed cannabis to search car for gun, judge rules A Sacramento County judge ruled Friday that two…
Inside an officer’s secret police file
City of Sacramento tries to block DUI defendant from accessing disciplinary record of cop who broke Latino man’s arm The city of Sacramento failed on…
Stat of the week: Nobody got divorced in April
But that doesn’t mean couples are quarantining happily ever after A funny thing happened after Sacramento County issued its first stay-at-home order on March 19:…
First there was civil unrest. Now there are bail hearings.
51 people were arrested for burglarizing Sacramento stores in aftermath of George Floyd’s death. Here’s how one judge is setting bail. The judge and the…
Stat of the week: Poverty cremations
More Sacramento families are asking for help to lay their dead to rest. Here’s why. A collapsing economy and devastating pandemic have forced more Sacramento…
You know George Floyd’s name. Should you know Reggie Payne’s?
The Sacramento man was suffering a medical emergency when police helped paramedics restrain him. He died a week later. Video footage of George Floyd dying…
Stat of the week: Who was arrested during Sacramento’s George Floyd protest marches?
Sacramento police arrested nearly 50 people during a tense three-night period of civil unrest sparked by the Memorial Day murder of George Floyd, an African-American…
Stat of the week: Memorial Day edition
The 326 other people who owe you their lives Because no one crashed or died, the California Highway Patrol was able to throw some shade…
Your weekend binge list
Ugly Americans seek love, a British detective seeks the truth and Al Pacino hams it up into obscurity “That hot poker behind my eyes is…
Some local health officials are choosing retirement over the coronavirus
The coronavirus crisis sure has been hell on local public health officials. Following in the footsteps of top health officials in Orange County and Butte…
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…
Theater of the absurd (lawsuit)
Elk Grove drama teacher who quit amid abuse allegations returns with a discrimination claim A discredited drama teacher is flipping the script on why she…