Editorial: Lost moment at the state capitol offers a window onto ‘the person sitting in darkness’
Sometimes our present woes are best understood through the pain others felt in the past For 45 years May has been the month of the…
Read MoreSometimes our present woes are best understood through the pain others felt in the past For 45 years May has been the month of the…
Read MoreStubbornly clinging to the former chancellor’s nebulous plans around Freeborn Hall’s destruction invokes transparency ghosts of the past By Scott Thomas Anderson I write this…
By Colleen Henderson Among parents’ worst fears is discovering their child has a debilitating chronic illness. When it happens, parents steel themselves for the journey…
By Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta Today’s commentary breaks my heart. Why? Because Restore the Delta is focused on water quality issues, flood control issues, future planning,…
By Chris Wright It took decades of political struggle to establish our modern wilderness system, which now contains 109, 138,635 acres. That sounds like a…
Our light at the end of the COVID tunnel feels like it’s arriving as the sky-glow of spring; but that does not mean peoples’ stress…
Gun violence is up, fears of hate crimes permeate, but this is not who we are By Waverly Hampton III Dear Sacramento, for the sake…
By Dr. Anokh Sohal, psychiatry resident physician UC Davis is at risk of denying its community of the talented Black and Brown doctors it deserves….
The neo-prohibitionists are back, using COVID as a Trojan horse to sneak their proverbial bottle hatchets into our favorite spots. By Scott Thomas Anderson Even…
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…
By Dave Roughton By some indicators, there’s reason to hope California is on the path to recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. State revenues are performing…
It’s a drive Re: “Sunday Farmers’ Market on the move” by Lindsay Oxford (Dish, Feb. 22): I feel bad for all the grid folks who…
Editor’s note: A farewell to SN&R This is not a note I wanted to write. But it’s the right time for SN&R, and for me,…
Trump’s golf game Re: “Censure culture” by Clay Jones (Editorial cartoon, Feb. 16): If we take one aspect from Trump’s era we will not see…
Essay: Sacramento can roar back from the COVID-19 recession if we support small businesses By Sean Loloee In the mid-19th century, Sacramento was founded on a…
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…
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…