Editor’s note: SMUD is better than PG&E, but not perfect
By Foon Rhee First off, it’s far better to get your power from SMUD than PG&E, especially these days. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District charges…
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Editor’s note: Reimagining Sacramento’s waterfront
By Foon Rhee Many of my favorite cities share at least one thing—an exciting waterfront: Barcelona, Paris, Vancouver, Venice and, of course, San Francisco. We’ll…
Essay: Time to change the book
Stephon Clark case shows need for independent investigations of police shootings By the Rev. Shane Harris Progressive California leads the nation in police shootings. This…
Essay: I’m listening and changing the city
Stephon Clark’s death revealed need to tackle generational poverty By Darrell Steinberg People who watch our City Council meetings often ask how I can sit…
Editor’s Note: No justice, no peace?
By Foon Rhee foonr@newsreview.com Any day now, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert will make the official announcement—and it’s very likely that the two…
Heard it in the newsroom: The worst state
SN&R’s Streetalk question this week is: What is the worst state? The six responses were varied, but come on, only one of them was right:…
Scorekeeper III: The week's winners and losers
Dog-day afternoon The time-honored tradition of a boy playing with his dog took an unexpectedly dark turn in the north Sacramento neighborhood of Westlake on…
Scorekeeper II: The week's winners and losers
This week’s winners and losers—with arbitrary points. Odor eaters The brown marmorated stink bug, a “super pest” species native to southeast Asia, has found a…
Scorekeeper I
Seattle sigs Sacramento Taxpayers Opposed to Pork announced on Tuesday that the 18,000 or so signatures collected in June and July—with funds provided…
Jerry Brown's privatization push makes us all slaves to the system
As American as apple pie and mass incarceration. The Who must have had Gov. Jerry Brown in mind when they sang, “Meet the new boss, same…