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As summer approaches, City prepared to open weather-respite centers
As summer approaches and the temperatures rise, the City is prepared to open weather-respite centers during extreme heat. Following its use as a respite location during winter storms, the City’s O...
Hands4Hope - Youth Making A Difference
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Barbara Leary Announces Run for Folsom City Council Dist. 4
Longtime public servant and dedicated community advocate, Barbara Leary, has officially announced her candidacy for Folsom City Council, representing District 4.
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.
From CalMatters...
Why UC Grad Students Are Going Out on Strike
The job action starting today at UC Santa Cruz isn’t about pay, but instead is in response to how UC deployed police to clear pro-Palestinian encampments on campuses.
From The Sacramento Observer...
School District Adds School Days to Avoid Penalties
The state Board of Education granted a waiver to a penalty of $40 million to the Sacramento City Unified School District for a lapse of eight days of instruction due to a teacher strike if the district makes up the days over 2 years.
In a Roundabout Way: Folsom Sees Benefits of 'Rotaries' Outweighing Stoplights, Including Fewer Collisions
Following a safety trend nationwide, the city of Folsom is moving toward building traffic roundabouts over traditional stoplights.
Folsom Accepting Ideas for Community Service Day
The city of Folsom is accepting project ideas for its 11th annual Community Service Day on Saturday, September 21..
These California Schools Connect Kids to Community Services. Will They Survive Budget Cuts?
Gov. Gavin Newsom launched the community school initiative with $4.1 billion in grants to connect students and their families to medical care, counseling and other services.
Should California Doctors Report Domestic Abuse to Police? Here’s How Physician Lawmakers Voted
Pending legislation would lift requirements for California’s doctors to report all domestic abuse cases to police. The Assembly’s three physicians had different opinions.
SB1 Funds Aim to Keep Roads Looking 'Good'
The Folsom Public Works Department announced $2.2 million in upcoming road projects to keep city streets rated as "good." Part of the funds will go to resurfacing East Bidwell Street from Riley Street to Blue Ravine Road.
EDH Fire Premieres “Kyle’s Story” to Raise Helmet Safety Awareness
The El Dorado Hills Fire Department has released the premiere of "Kyle’s Story," a compelling documentary that explores the serious consequences of not wearing a helmet through the personal journey of a local teenager Kyle Benton.
California’s Lagging Economy Hinders Efforts to Close State Budget Deficit
As Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislators spend the next few weeks fashioning a state budget that’s plagued by a multibillion-dollar deficit, they can’t count on a booming economy to make their task easier.
California’s Staggering Budget Deficit Squashes Hundreds of Bills
The state’s multibillion-dollar shortfall shapes which spending bills survived the ‘suspense file’ hearings by the Assembly and Senate appropriations committees.
Reser's Fine Foods Announces Voluntary Recall of Single Batch of Aldi Macaroni 32 oz Salad with Use By Date of Jun/03/24 Due to Unlabeled Wheat Allergen
United Supermarkets Advises Guests in New Mexico and Texas of Palmer Candy's Voluntary Recall of White Coated Confectionary Items Due to Possible Salmonella Contamination
The state has pledged to build 2.5 million housing units by 2030, and one agency is charged with that task. Meet the California Department of Housing and Community Development.
Your mental health is the most important thing in the world.
How the California mental health crisis emerged out of the state’s history of deinstitutionalization and laws designed to protect the mentally ill, as well as the communities around them.
The state's never-ending housing crisis has inspired hundreds of thousands of Californians to flee, and inspired an audacious plan for a brand-new city. Here's where the two related stories stand this week.
We take a closer look at ambitious plans to build a new community of up to 400,000 residents in Solano County.
Jan Sramek disavows techno-libertarian 'Network State,' explains why master-planned cities are All-American, and talks of his love for walkable communities.
The California housing crisis is not only weakening the state politically at the national level, it could shift the political balance in Washington, D.C., as Republican-led states add population while California’s exodus continues.
They were odd jobs, but somebody had to do them. On International Workers’ Day, one peripatetic laborer shares his career lowlights.
Despite predictions that the party on the West Coast is winding down, California’s population increased last year for the first time since 2020.
A celebration of the work of an artist who devoted a career to preserving the wildlands he loved. Plus: News you can use, and a tasty recipe!
A celebrated photographer reflects on the life that led to his first book, which captures a secret paradise in the heart of the San Francisco Peninsula.
Before he started making images without a camera, Robert Buelteman was a celebrated nature photographer who worked primarily in black-and-white film.
For the good of Tahoe Truckee forests and communities, funders & local leaders rally to support Northstar Community Services District wood energy facility.
Ee celebrate the efforts our fellow humans have made and are making to help heal our planet and connect us, while we simultaneously consider what we must do to protect our communities as the climate crisis worsens.
Meet the hippie intellectual who changed the world with the first published photograph of our entire planet.
California communities are focusing resources in response to the effects of climate change and other challenges.
The 2023 collapse of Sacramento Self-Help Housing has led to a large hole in local services. But it also shows problems go well beyond the former nonprofit.
A Tesla lobbyist, an LA-based environmental group, and Gov. Jerry Brown brought a rule minted in Sacramento to Beijing, and helped launch China’s EV industry.
We take a look, or rather a listen, to Davisville, a radio show and podcast on low-power but high-energy KDRT 95.7, broadcast out of Davis, California.
City Council approves plan to transition existing buildings to electricity by 2045
The Sacramento City Council last Tuesday adopted a strategy to guide the transition of existing buildings to carbon-free electricity by 2045. The approved “Existing Building Electrification Strate...
Oak Park families and seniors receive home-repair support from ‘Rock the Block’ program
Several Oak Park homeowners recently received home repairs through the "Rock the Block" initiative, a community investment program funded in part by the City and led by Habitat for Humanity of Gre...
Networking event aims to drive social equity in City’s cannabis industry
The City of Sacramento's Cannabis Opportunity Reinvestment and Equity (CORE) program hosted its latest networking event on May 2 at Sequoia at the Cannery in Sacramento. More than 70 people atten...
Data Report: How the City responded to homelessness May 6-12
The City of Sacramento has released its weekly progress report for the City’s Incident Management Team responding to homelessness. From May 6-12, the City of Sacramento received 711 calls to 311 c...
Traffic alert: Night paving planned for Broadway Complete Streets construction
The next phase of construction on the Broadway Complete Streets project will soon be underway with planned nighttime paving activities. Starting Sunday, May 19, construction crews will begin grind...
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