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A safety net will not close California’s income gap
Leaders need to create ways for workers to get the skills needed for higher-paying jobs. This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. Despite decades of progressive policies and enhanced safety-net programs, income inequality in California — the gap between the...
El Dorado County residents in crisis as insurance companies leave the state
Diana Still had faithfully paid her home insurance for years. But recently, the Placerville resident received notice that her insurer was dropping her. She soon learned that new coverage from a different provider would cost $20,000 a year, more than triple her prior annual payment. “I literally just put my...
Inclusivity at the forefront of Sac’s Latino Center of Art and Culture’s inaugural Zine Fest
Over 30 tables lined the parking lot outside the Latino Center for Arts and Culture on Front Street in Sacramento on Sunday, May 19 for the center’s inaugural Zine Fest. The event aimed to increase inclusivity and accessibility for underrepresented artists, particularly creators of color, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and disabled artists.
How California and the EU work together to regulate artificial intelligence
While the federal government appears content to sit back and wait, more than 40 U.S. states are considering hundreds of AI regulation bills. California, with its status as a tech-forward state and huge economy, has a chance to lead the way. So much so, in fact, that the European Union is trying to coordinate with the state on AI laws. The EU opened an office in San Francisco in 2022 and dispatched a tech envoy, Gerard de Graaf, to better communicate about laws and regulations around AI.
CLTRE secures land on Del Paso Boulevard for housing development
CLTRE, a nonprofit creating pathways for economic development and homeownership in underserved communities, has secured a new site for affordable housing and retail development on Del Paso Boulevard in North Sacramento. The organization bought the land at market rate, which includes three vacant parcels and one with an old building....
Money has run out for fruits and vegetables for low-income Californians. Elected leaders are silent.
The fresh food rebate pilot program delivered on its promises, but politicians won’t pledge to put it in the budget. This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. More than 50 people stood dressed in jackets and hats against the...
He learned baseball during a grim chapter in local history – now he’s still coaching the game at age 92
Mas Sato has been helping players learn their form around Sacramento since 1976. Growing up in the 1930s and 1940s, Mas Sato didn’t play organized baseball until he was 10. “I was born in Woodland, but my dad worked as a farm laborer, so we used to travel around different places in the area,” Sato said. “Before the war, we were next to Oroville, and went to a very small school. I was there for three years, probably the longest time we spent in one place.”
Asian Pacific CultureFest celebrates diversity within AAPI diaspora
The sound of flutes and two-string fiddles waft through the various booths lining the pavements and lawns across District56 as a group of 10 Hmong dancers clad in traditional white and red dresses, and adorned with intricate jewelry, perform for the crowd at the third-annual Asian Pacific CultureFest in Elk Grove on Sunday, May 19.
A complicated love story: Zendaya shines onscreen and on the tennis court in ‘Challengers’
Zendaya stars for director Luca Guadagnino (Bones and All, Call Me by Your Name) in Challengers, a movie about tennis that works well as both a fascinating study of the sport and a complicated love story. Make that a very complicated love story. Tashi (Zendaya) is a college student and...
Cost of Delta tunnel rises to $20.1 billion, environmentalists blast ‘flawed’ benefits analysis by Newsom administration
The Department of Water Resources, or DWR, just released a controversial benefit-cost analysis for the Delta Conveyance Project – better known as the Delta Tunnel – that claims the embattled project would create billions of dollars in benefits for California communities. This claim from officials coincides with the revelation that the now-single-tunnel project will cost $20.1 billion.
How the bank-run bond market could make clean energy cheaper
Georgia utilities are getting a discount on gas — but paying full price for renewables. This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. For decades, some towns and cities have been getting a discount on their natural gas supply by...
No, the Isleton Crawdad Festival is not leaving Isleton
Some confusion has engulfed the internet about where the most-historic crawdad festival in the West is happening this summer; and despite conflicting reports, the action is indeed going down in the eclectic century-and-half-old river haven that bears its name. Of course, confusion is nothing to new Isleton – to the...
Award-winning Sacramento teacher says she’s been fighting Long COVID since spring of 2022
In 2021, Belinda ‘Bee’ Foster was recognized as Teacher of the Year for Twin Rivers Unified School District. It was a capstone in a career that spans much of her adult life. During a pandemic that most education systems never prepared for, Foster continued to serve her students. But the second year of upheaval would be the last year of life as Foster once knew it.
Sacramento’s Dog Party readies for album-launch at Harlow’s on May 17
Love, Grief and Understanding. This is the vibe that Dog Party brings with their music. Now, the rocker duo is holding a release show at Harlow’s on Friday for their seventh studio album. The Sacramento-based team consists of sisters Gwendolyn and Lucy Giles, with the former on guitar and...
The Met high school hosts leadership conference for Chicanx youth
The MEChA program at The Met high school in Sacramento held a Chicanx Youth Leadership Conference on Saturday, May 11, sponsored by Sacramento City Councilmember Katie Valenzuela, NorCal Resist and Sol Collective. At the conference, students and community from the Sacramento area took part in activities and unique workshops, including...
‘Apes’ in the future: ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ works thanks to a decent story, great special effects
On the negative side, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes has the dubious distinction of being the weakest of the four newer Apes movies that began with James Franco and Rise of the Planet of the Apes back in 2011. On the plus side, it’s still pretty good.
Equity in the Capital: Stacey Chimimba Ault and Darcy Totten on finding balance between advocacy and rest
Somewhere someone has told you how important it is to get a good night’s rest. Sure, all fine and well. But how and when, when you’re busy and if you have kids, multiply that busyness by how many kids, and then there’s your job and your partner, and your partner’s job, and the splitting up of everyday chores and just the noise of life. And then if you, by the way, happened to be a certain demographic, there’s the cultural load, both at home and at work. That is a lot.
California’s dream of a green hydrogen future could backfire
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s push to ramp up the renewable fuel carries risks: increased emissions and pollution. This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. A plan by California business groups to accelerate a hydrogen industry has gained ground after two...
Rancho Cordova Youth Center’s book vending machine gets kids excited to read
Youth members run out of the Rancho Cordova Youth Center doors excited about what they will show their parents. It’s an item they’ve received through hard work and dedication — a brand-new book. This isn’t an ordinary book that can be checked out from the library and...
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