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The platforms, priorities and campaign funding in Sacramento’s District 4 city council race
The lines for Sacramento’s District 4 have been redrawn and local politicos are waiting to see what that means for representation at City Hall. Its dimensions now encompass everything from the downtown heartbeat of state government, to historic enclaves like Second Japantown and Little Italy. But perhaps the biggest question on everyone’s minds involves how its newly absorbed neighborhoods of East Sacramento will vote on March 5.
SN&R talks with Marky Ramone ahead of his Blitzkrieg band’s performance in Old Roseville’s on Feb. 16
It’s been 46 years since Marc Bell – better known as Marky Ramone – landed a job drumming for one of the greatest punk icons of all time. He’d already been playing around with Dust in the early 70s, which is now considered one of heavy metal’s most influential bands. But it wasn’t until a handful of years later that he joined with Richard Hell & the Voidoids to release the fabulous punk classic ‘Blank Generation’ on Sire Records. Then, in 1978, through a happenstance meeting at legendary punk club CBGBs, Marc would find himself joining The Ramones, changing his name to Marky, and eventually recording on the band’s ‘Road To Ruin’ album.
Parents’ lawsuit forces California to spend $2 billion on learning loss. Here’s what will change
California schools will have to spend $2 billion of their remaining Covid relief funds on tutoring and other measures to help high-needs students recover from learning loss, according to a legal settlement announced this week. The agreement, reached in Alameda County Superior Court, was between the state and a group...
Crocker presents how Black artists ‘shaped the future’ of America’s art history
Museum’s new exhibition highlights Black artists from the 1950s through ’70s. The Crocker Art Museum’s new exhibition, “Black Artists in America, from Civil Rights to the Bicentennial,” showcases over 60 works from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, offering an artistic glimpse into a compelling period in our nation’s history.
Essay: Let’s talk about improving Sacramento’s election system
With the Primary Election rapidly approaching, Sacramento voters will be bombarded with political mailers, emails, texts and calls from candidates running for mayor and council. As usual, the campaign rhetoric can get ugly. After the Primary narrows each race to two candidates, it will get even uglier as the finalists raise and spend big money to duke it out for eight months before the General Election.
Power Play: No limits mean PG&E may raise rates again for Northern and Central Californians
A $33 a month average rate hike took effect Jan. 1. Now PG&E wants up to $20 a month more. Reformers say it is time to cap annual increases. Pacific Gas and Electric Company, which dominates the supply of power to most of Northern and Central California, just hit its customers with a whopping $33 a month rate hike. The 13% increase to the average bill took effect on Jan. 1.
Area nonprofit Fitrah teaches youth life skills through bookselling business
Several years ago, Nadia Niazi met a woman who had been homeless for 19 years. For Niazi, the experience proved life-altering as she worked to get the woman stable housing. Through the process of helping the woman, Niazi said she started learning about the barriers that many at-risk youth face. She wanted to do her part to make a difference.
Why California legislators of both parties want to ban homeless encampments
Describing California’s homelessness crisis as “inhumane” and “unhealthy,” Senate GOP leader Brian Jones of San Diego and Democratic Sen. Catherine Blakespear of Encinitas today announced a bipartisan bill to ban homeless encampments near “sensitive community areas” statewide. Modeled after San Diego’s “Unsafe Camping...
New GSEC initiative seeks to strengthen Sacramento’s entrepreneurial ecosystem
The Greater Sacramento Economic Council has launched a new partnership with the Sacramento Entrepreneurship Growth Alliance that will work to enhance the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the local region. “[We are interested in] how we can better support entrepreneurs and not just starting their organizations, but gaining the resources that they...
Oak Park community members come together for a talk focused on anti-gentrification and displacement efforts around Aggie Square
While promising to boost local health care and tech economies, UC Davis’s Aggie Square project raises concerns for Oak Park community. Discussions about solutions to prevent gentrification and displacement in neighborhoods surrounding UC Davis’s Aggie Square took center stage during Solving Sacramento’s Suds & Solutions (& BBQ!) event Wednesday night at The Brickhouse Gallery & Art Complex in Oak Park.
Billy Idol and partner in crime, Stevie Stevens, to play Thunder Valley on Feb. 9
Since 1982, Billy Idol has proven a prolific and successful pop music entity. And while it seems like he and Stevie Stevens are never off the road, the two still managed to release “The Roadside” EP in 2021 and “The Cage” EP in 2022. Each album came out on the boutique label Dark Horse Records. Idol’s seminal “Rebel Yell” also just turned 40 last year and will be celebrated with an expanded edition.
Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency’s La Shelle Dozier on the role of policy, funding and public perception of affordable housing
In 1982, Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency was formed by the city and county as a joint powers authority. These local governments wanted to include all of their housing functions under one entity. SHRA provides housing for people who need it through different programs like the Housing Choice Vouchers Program,...
Essay: What is a Conservative? Understanding how the term works in American politics
The evergreen questions raised by the label “conservative” are: Conserving what and from whom?. Let’s dispense with one popular answer to this question, asserted by many American conservatives and liberals alike: that proper conservatives are devoted to “small government” or engaged in protecting “individual liberties” from a big government. These are slogans of today’s Republican Party, but there’s no good argument to believe that the party behind the War on Drugs (Richard Nixon, and later Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and every Republican since), the PATRIOT Act (George W. Bush), the first and second Iraq War (Both Bushes), massive police funding, eliminating the right to abortion, Don’t Say Gay laws, and school book bans is, in any way that makes sense, devoted to “limiting” the power of the government. To make sense of the word “conservative” we have to dig deeper than headlines and slogans.
Regional Tribal Environmental Coalition challenges State Water Board on Bay-Delta Plan
As the Delta Smelt has become virtually extinct in the wild – and as spring-run, winter-run and fall-run Chinook salmon populations on the Sacramento River have collapsed – the Delta Tribal Environmental Coalition is taking more urgent legal action, filing an administrative comment with the California State Water Resources Control Board in mid-January.
In California’s housing crisis, a senior fights to keep his place in the world
Facing eviction after 30 years, Mike Balog says moving out would mean losing his community, part of his identity and having nowhere else to go. This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. Mike Balog has called his memento-filled one-bedroom apartment...
New cannabis dispensaries bring Sacramento closer to reaching social equity goals
Maisha Bahati stands proudly inside her new storefront. “We took so many risks,” she says. After four years of hard work and worry, Crystal Nugs cannabis delivery service opened a walk-in dispensary on J Street in Midtown Sacramento in November. “This building had been boarded up for years....
A completely new love story: ‘All of Us Strangers’ is not getting the awards buzz it deserves
All of Us Strangers, which got a limited release last year in order to qualify for awards season, is now in wider release—and it’s quite simply one of the best and most beautiful films of recent months. Directed by Andrew Haigh (who co-wrote the script), the film combines...
Essay: Working out the personal and political in paint with Shiva Ahmadi
Shiva Ahmadi’s art encompasses and expresses her personal and political concerns, anxieties, fears and joys. But her art is not polemical nor pedantic, nor so personal that it cannot connect with others. “I am a political person,” said Ahmadi, a UC Davis College of Letters and Science professor in...
A dead cellphone, $27 in cash and nowhere to turn
Migrants released by ICE after dark often must rely on the kindness of strangers and sheer luck or risk spending long nights on the street. This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main and co-published here with permission. When a woman from Nicaragua got off a...
How everyday people can invest in the area’s vulnerable children
The day before Thanksgiving last year, I went to family court in Placer County for the 6-year-old child to whom I am a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA). My child and his two younger brothers were permanently placed with their parents, a best-case scenario and the result of a team of social workers, therapists, attorneys, and the diligent efforts of the parents themselves. The day felt important, as studies show that children who remain with their parents, instead of being removed from their home, have greater odds of overcoming addiction, incarceration, suicide and homelessness later in life, should they face these challenges.
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