In 2022, researchers at UC Davis reached a milestone: We joined an elite list of fewer than 20 public universities that receive more than $1 billion every year to conduct … Click to Continue »...
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Politics are too often full of broken promises. Often, the best we can hope for is that someone is paying attention, and holding the powerful to account. Sometimes that’s a … Click to Continu...
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The deaths of six immigrant workers in the collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26 sparked the kind of collective empathy that usually follows tragic events. President … Cl...
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Many Americans were surprised last year when smoke from wildfires hundreds of miles away turned their air toxic. There's no excuse for anybody to be surprised when it happens again … Click to C...
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Sometimes I don’t know what Republicans are thinking. That’s true when they pointlessly try to depose their leaders, donate fives and tens to billionaires, and especially when they subsidize ...
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How much bleeding is considered dying? The Supreme Court is set to make a major decision April 24 that could have wide-ranging effects on physicians like me — and put … Click to Continue »
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Whatever happened to Google's "Don't be evil" motto? That corporate maxim is apparently gone, and the Internet behemoth has decided to display its super villain side. The latest example is … Cl...
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In an unusual joint statement, the Republican governors of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Tennessee assailed the United Auto Workers union as it proceeds with a unioniza...
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Democracy is ailing. Around the world, strongmen seem all the rage. China's Xi, Russia's Putin, Hungary's Orban, India's Modi and a clutch of Latin Americans, together with the rise of … Click ...
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The Kings bear no shame in losing to a better team. They lost six times this season to one the New Orleans Pelicans. Friday’s loss in the play-in game hurt … Click to Continue »
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There’s a paranoid sickness that unites far-left and far-right in the United States. Its latest victim, identified by city officials as Florida resident Max Azzarello, set himself ablaze in the...
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Sacramento’s now realized moment to host a Major League Baseball team has been more than a quarter century in the making, showing what can happen when both sides of the … Click to Continue »...
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My last memories of Uncle Ed are of a cool, tanned, 20-something year-old who lifted weights and rode a motorcycle. Uncle Ed had an entire room in his house dedicated … Click to Continue »
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Big Oil is investing big bucks in a PR campaign that tells us — insert drum roll here — that gas is way more expensive in California. Shocking, right? To … Click to Continue »
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The recent submission of a blatantly racist letter in opposition to Assembly Bill 2319 by the Imperial Grand Ayran Council of California and the Western United White Knights is a … Click to Con...
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Oil giant Chevron’s recent $13 million fine for more than 70 oil spills in California grabbed headlines and set a record for the biggest fine ever paid to the state … Click to Continue »
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As California scrambles to reach its statewide climate goals — to conserve 30% of California lands and coastal waters by 2030 and to completely transition to renewable energy by 2045 … Click ...
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Google’s decision to begin removing links to California news sites from search results not only threatens the economics of independent journalism, it also prevents citizens and communities from...
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Keep momentum going “Sacramento, meet the Oakland A’s: Proud history, hard times and baseball’s lowest payroll,” (sacbee.com, April 4) It’s a done deal: The A’s are coming to town. Wh...
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As the glare of public scrutiny intensifies on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Panera Bread corruption scandal, we are left with more questions than answers. The governor has recently chosen secrecy over �...
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California has the fifth-highest number of missing and murdered Indigenous people cases in the country. How did we get here? After passing Public Law 280 in 1953, Congress essentially washed … ...
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“‘What is REAL?’ asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender … ‘Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and … Click to Continue »
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At last, Disneyland plans to trade in those outdated, exhaust-spewing, gas-powered Autopia cars for more environmentally friendly models better suited to the Happiest Place on Earth. Plans are st...
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OJ Simpson was spiritually and morally dead long before prostate cancer officially ended his life, on Thursday, at 76. The man whose fame and fortune were so attractive to me … Click to Continu...
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Today, California is home to nearly half of the nation’s unsheltered homeless population. Since 2018, our state has spent nearly $24 billion taxpayer dollars to solve its homelessness crisis, o...
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The service fee for that ticket to attend a Sacramento Kings game or a concert may comprise a modest fraction of the overall cost. Still, we’re forced to pay it … Click to Continue »
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Rape is a joke in America. I know this, because if it weren’t, allegations would be taken seriously, sex offenders would be prosecuted accordingly and survivors would have justice for … Click...
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Positive change is happening in the workplace as workers are organizing unions in bookstores, coffee shops, auto factories and hotels. They are walking off the job to demand dignity and … Click...
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Fight intolerance “Elk Grove parents plan walk out over LGBTQ student clubs,” (sacbee.com, March 29) A cosmic symmetry: the same day you published this article highlighting Elk Grove Unified ...
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Sure seems like California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta is going to make an example out of Sacramento’s little sister to the south, Elk Grove. In a column I wrote back … Click to Continue �...
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