13 results for "Ginger Rutland, Associate editor"
Ginger Rutland: A rehab program for ex-cons the county should embrace
Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 12:00 AMThirty-two-year-old Paul Coen is married, the father of three young daughters and a former member of the Oak Park Bloods – one of just a handful of whites to ever join that notorious street gang. Coen is also an ex-con.
In the Spotlight: Sandra Day O'Connor: Retired but hardly at rest
Sunday, March 3, 2013 at 12:00 AMHer hair is snowy white. She leans heavily on a cane and calls herself "just an unemployed cowgirl." But this self-deprecating ex-cowgirl is retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the na...
Ginger Rutland: For children, a library is a gift that keeps on giving
Sunday, December 23, 2012 at 12:00 AMOriginally conceived as a children's library, the Ella K. McClatchy Library has been a quiet refuge for generations of Sacramento book lovers of all ages for decades.
Ginger Rutland: An era's searing memories
Sunday, November 25, 2012 at 12:00 AMI've been captivated by "The Dust Bowl," Ken Burns' illuminating TV documentary that ran for two nights on PBS last week. In the 1930s a decade-long drought combined with poor farming practices created an environmental catastro...
Ginger Rutland: Passionate partisans preferred on cable TV
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 12:00 AMToday's television news landscape, particularly cable, takes my breath away. It's so different, so loud and coarse, so blatantly partisan from the over-the-air TV news of my increasingly distant formative years. And for the most part, I ...
Editorial Notebook: Our democracy is still alive and well
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 12:00 AMWatching the presidential candidates slug it out with dueling negative TV ads funded by tens of millions of dollars of super PAC contributions, it's easy to get cynical about elections and democracy in 21st-century America.
Ginger Rutland: Food trucks and restaurants - can't we all just get along?
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 12:00 AMThere must have been a thousand people at Garcia Bend Park in Sacramento's Pocket neighborhood on Wednesday night for the SactoMoFo Food Festival.
Editorial Notebook: Time to plant some cactus at City Hall?
Thursday, July 5, 2012 at 12:00 AMA barefoot Anthony Thomas Holden was sitting on a blanket in front of Sacramento's City Hall on Monday, digging for something from between his grimy toes. His dog, chained to a bush, lounged next to him. Dog food and people food were stacked...
Ginger Rutland: 'First Generation' shows low-income students' dedication
Saturday, June 23, 2012 at 12:00 AMI walked away from "First Generation" haunted. The documentary, screened at Sacramento's downtown Esquire Imax Theatre earlier this month, chronicles two crucial years in the lives of four California teenagers from poor families wh...
A neighborhood apart: Gas storage plan rekindles old feelings of division
Sunday, June 17, 2012 at 12:00 AMA divided California Public Utilities Commission is poised to approve or deny a controversial proposal to store 8 billion cubic feet of natural gas three-quarters of a mile beneath 700 homes in Sacramento's Avondale/Glen Elder neighborhood.
