Editorials

You'd think that a city that's grown from 66,000 in 1920 to nearly 500,000 today might want to reconsider its nearly 90-year-old city manager form of government.

For those who think there is no hope for the homeless, that government programs and private charities can't make fundamental change in homeless people's lives, Rebecca Hahn, Wesley Colter, and Sheffine Houghton offer proof that they can and do.

It's easy to dismiss Placerville's decision to slap a 45-day moratorium on opening or relocating thrift stores as just another sign of the harsh economic times.

It's nice that Steinberg wants to help his fellow human beings get along, but please do it without everyone else's money.

Two things seem clear about the historic water measure that was jammed through the Legislature early Wednesday morning.

Just days after he was elected, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson invited other mayors in the region to a breakfast. The top leaders of West Sacramento, Marysville, Elk Grove, Auburn, Citrus Heights, Loomis, Live Oak, Yuba City, Rocklin, Lincoln, Winters and Rancho Cordova showed up.

To its credit, UC Davis Medical Center has admitted its mistake. It should not have sent the parents of Scott Hawkins a bill for $29,186 just 10 days after the Sacramento State student was pronounced dead in the emergency room after a beating in his dormitory.

Monday night at Arco Arena, if you closed your eyes and just let the sound wash over you, it was the glory days again.

Fair or not, as he leaves Sacramento, County Executive Terry Schutten will be remembered most for his last disastrous year at the helm of county government. His performance during the current budget crisis has been dismal. As the county sank into the fiscal dark hole from which it has yet to emerge, Schutten mostly dithered, delayed and denied.

This month, the United States enters its ninth year of seemingly never-ending troop escalation in Afghanistan.

Two prominent Sacramento women died last week – Mary Brill and Jean Runyon.

This week will be a big test for the California Legislature, which has the lowest approval ratings since the Field Poll started measuring in 1983.

Citizens of Sacramento, your City Hall is in disarray.

It's hardly surprising that the state courts are having trouble developing a massive new computer system. California continues to build an information superhighway that is strewn with potholes.

California lawmakers face an epic moment in the state's wrangling over water.

Say it ain't so! Is it really true that videos for babies don't make the infants smarter?

The city of Sacramento has an unsung hero in the Natomas permit scandal.

State highway officials say high winds and traffic vibrations caused a patch on the cantilevered section of the San Francisco Bay Bridge to fail.

When the city of Davis doesn't build enough housing to accommodate its work force, the rest of the region suffers. It means more traffic, more air pollution and more stress on people who have to commute long distances to work in Davis.