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OPINION: Sacramento urgently needs budget ‘reality check’ moment

Sacramento, California - I drive the same streets I’ve known since I was a kid. Some mornings I still take the route past the American River where we used to picnic and let the kids wade when they were small. Now there are tarps and...

OPINION: Sacramento cut youth violence programs. Then teenagers started getting shot.

Sacramento, California - I’ve raised kids in this city and now I have grandkids growing up here. When I hear about another teenager getting shot, it doesn’t feel like a statistic. It feels like another family in a neighborhood I know getting torn apart,...

OPINION: The 503 Sacramento City Unified layoffs are a symptom, not the cure

Sacramento, California - I sent both my kids through Sacramento City Unified schools. East Sac elementary, then a middle school that had its ups...

OPINION: I watched a man steal razors and liquor in broad daylight. The cashier just hit the manager button.

Sacramento, California (Editorial) - I was at the grocery store on Alhambra Boulevard the other day, the one I’ve shopped at for twenty years....

OPINION: Return to office, Sacramento has waited long enough

Sacramento, California - I still remember what downtown felt like on a regular Tuesday before everything changed. You could walk from the Capitol area...

Sacramento signed agreements to coordinate homelessness services. On the street at midnight, nothing changed.

Sacramento, California - Sacramento has no shortage of plans, committees, dashboards, agreements or good intentions. In fact, that may be part of what makes...

The cost-of-living crisis in California is unbearable as it turns everyday bills into impossible family tradeoffs

Marisol Vega knows which grocery store has cheaper eggs, which gas station drops prices on Tuesdays and which bill can wait three days without...

OPINION: Bigger police spending leaves Sacramento residents asking why the city feels less protected

Sacramento, California - I’ve lived in this city long enough to remember when seeing a police car on a regular patrol felt normal rather...