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California will play a crucial role in challenging efforts by Donald Trump to move the country in a decidedly more conservative direction. Between 2017 and 2021, the California Attorney General â...

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In his early-morning Nov. 6 victory speech after being re-elected president, Donald Trump promised, "It’s time to unite." A few hours later, in her gracious concession speech, Vice President Ka...

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From the Dispatch Politics on The Dispatch Happy Friday! Unless you're a Democratic Party insider, in which case you're just beginning to get sucked into a recriminations spiral. Up to … Click ...

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For the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and other dogged supporters of extreme rent controls, the third time most definitely was not the charm in Tuesday's election. The group backed Proposition 33, â...

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The popularYellowstone TV series, set and filmed in Montana, taps into a lesser-known chapter of the state's history: its settlement by Confederates and ex-Confederates during and after the Civil...

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A convicted felon and adjudicated sex offender is returning to the White House. A candidate who spoke of using the military against political foes and called for the summary execution … Click t...

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Folsom, one of the Sacramento region’s shining exurbs, finds itself facing a grouchy electorate and some severe looming budget problems. In a stunning rebuke of the city’s political and busin...

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In Sacramento’s March mayoral primary, Flojaune Cofer finished dead last among the top four candidates on election night. By the time the counting was done weeks later, she had won … Click to...

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On Nov. 5, the American people did the unthinkable — they elected a convicted felon president. Judge Juan Merchan should now do what was once unthinkable — force a president-elect … Click t...

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California’s political center has shifted and the topics of concern no longer include racial reconciliation with the Black community. Nothing made that more clear than seeing Proposition 6 fail...

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Democrats who are reliving their worst nightmare with the pending return of Donald Trump to the White House have only themselves to blame. Trump should have had no chance to … Click to Continue...

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I’d like to speak to the manager. The election did not go the way I wanted it to go. I’m angry. I demand a redo. Except that’s already Karen’s line, … Click to Continue »

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In our collective political memory, the 2022 midterm elections are remembered as a historic underperformance by the Republican Party, while the 2024 presidential election will be remembered as a ...

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In the parlance of politics, "ticket-splitting" refers to someone who votes for candidates of both major parties. It bedevils political devotees as they turn out partisan voters. In some states â...

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The Sacramento City Council is considering a pilot program for the social consumption of cannabis in smoking lounges at storefront cannabis dispensaries. The problem, however, is that without exc...

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I am not a prophet. I don’t imagine you were confused about that, but I thought I’d better go on record as having said it up front of my own … Click to Continue »

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Nostalgia can be a beautiful and dangerous thing. It’s beautiful, because it allows us to revel in fond memories of simpler times: swimming at the city pool and then playing … Click to Contin...

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Like a lot of you who hoped for a different result, I went to sleep early Wednesday sick at my stomach over Donald Trump’s decisive victory, and woke up the … Click to Continue »

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Gavin Newsom cannot lead the resistance to Donald Trump’s second presidency from Marin County, California. Newsom should resist his attention-seeking tendencies because appointing himself as th...

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What happened on Tuesday? To listen to the teams of talking heads on cable TV is to be bombarded by a cacophony of campaign mechanic rationalizations that just seem inadequate … Click to Contin...

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The California Air Resources Board should go back to the drawing board rather than expand a policy that would raise gas prices without meaningfully lowering emissions. At issue is an … Click to...

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Down the winding stairs and into the basement at a mini-golf-themed pub in Downtown Commons, the Election Night party for Sacramento’s progressive mayoral candidate Flo Cofer was a small spot â...

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California might have escaped the clutches of rent control this election cycle, but it will resurface again. On Tuesday, Proposition 33, which would have expanded local options for rent control, ...

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California’s new political center, one that is not set in stone, is about to reveal itself. The Democrats running Sacramento, who do not appear to always be on the same … Click to Continue »...

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Last year, the Sacramento City Council ordered mandatory diversity training for itself and its top staff. All nine council members completed the training. So did their top staff and all … Click...

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Tuesday has become a day I look forward to every week. It’s not just because it’s Taco Tuesday. (Who doesn’t love a good taco?) I also go to yoga on … Click to Continue »

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Drake is my boy. For over a decade, I have had an almost cult belief in the Canadian rapper and his music. Since moving to California this year, my allegiance … Click to Continue »

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California’s recent wildfires show just how important it is to reduce the heat-trapping greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere every day. According to the California Air Resources ...

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Oct. 28, 2024, marked the 50th anniversary of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the landmark federal law signed in 1974 that prohibited lenders from discriminating in credit transactions and fina...

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Sacramento’s cannabis industry may be the best in California, the product is legal, and potentially lucrative for our city but you would never know that from listening to members of … Click t...

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