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Essay: Across Faiths and Cultures, the Heart of the Holidays Stays the Same

For the Last Word essay column, a radio personality turned writer reflects on holiday spirit

Surveys show record numbers of Americans saying the country is off track, and the future feels bleak. And yet, beneath it, the impulse to kindness keeps flickering.

Dec 24, 2025 Dave Williams

From Legendary Eggnog to Midnight Mochi, Here Are Sacramento’s Sweetest Holiday Traditions

Local makers keep cherished winter rituals alive

Like Santa’s workshop, Sacramento has a bevy of elves preparing goods for your holidays, and some are months in the making. We stopped in to observe the preparations.

Dec 23, 2025 Becky Grunewald

Sacramento Manufacturers and Distributors Weigh the Effects of Tariffs

Local businesses say there are winners and losers in the tariff game

Changes in prices and supplies have been creating uncertainty in the marketplace for regional businesses. We asked Capital Region businesses how they are adapting — and whether they see any benefits.

Dec 22, 2025 Seth Sandronsky

The Chinese Art of Tea Takes Hold in the Sacramento Region

Practitioners say gongfu cha encourages mindfulness and presence

Gongfu cha, which means making tea with effort in Chinese, is a method of preparing and appreciating high-quality tea in small amounts, through repeated pours. Many are turning to the art form as another way to find balance and harmony.

Dec 19, 2025 Sarah Bun

Sacramento Restaurants Pay Less After Entertainment Permit Changes

Changes made to the city’s entertainment permits will raise prices for some, while lowering the difficulty and cost enough for others to finally become aboveboard

A new city ordinance created a system that makes it faster and cheaper for restaurants, bars and cafes to get limited entertainment permits. So why have only three businesses applied?

Dec 18, 2025 Eric Schucht

Employees Aren’t Washing Their Hands. Is It My Job as HR to Tell Them What They Should Have Learned in Kindergarten?

Dilemma of the Month: The Evil HR Lady addresses personal hygiene in the workplace

While I agree that non-handwashers are gross, the reality is that life is gross.

Dec 3, 2025 Brad Branan

New UC Davis Research Center Will Help Central Valley Provide Food Sustainably

The Resnick Center for Agricultural Innovation will explore the future of food

Agricultural research is about to get supercharged at UC Davis, thanks to a $50 million donation from the co-owners of one of the biggest names in almonds, The Wonderful Company.

Dec 2, 2025 Brad Branan

A Thriving (but Manageable) Metropolis | Opinion

FROM THE PUBLISHER: An ode to Sacramento, despite what Joan Didion wrote

For most of us who live and work here, Sacramento, the once-called “cow town,” has grown with the region into a thriving but manageable metropolis.

Dec 1, 2025 Winnie Comstock-Carlson

Essay: Nostalgia Bomb at the Sunrise Mall

Reflections on the melancholia of dying malls

For children of the ‘80s and ‘90s the mall was the church of our youth, but for later generations the mall is just an inconvenient vending machine. What happened to the mall, will happen to each of us. And like the mall, ultimately, we will simply be forgotten. 

Nov 27, 2025 Won Song

Possible Last Causeway Classic in 71-Year History Is One to Remember

The classic game between football rivals Sacramento State and UC Davis may come to an end

If Nov. 22’s Causeway Classic was truly the 71st and final chapter of the storied series between I-80 rivals Sacramento State and UC Davis, then the sendoff couldn’t have been more dramatic.

Nov 26, 2025 Steve Martarano

Art Exposed: Jessica Wimbley

A Davis-trained artist returns to the Capital Region after more than a decade in Southern California

Jessica Wimbley’s moving-image series “True Story of Edges,” which premiered in the 2022 exhibition “Coordinates,” invites viewers to question the politicization of Black bodies while evoking love, joy and compassion.

Nov 25, 2025 Melissa LuVisi

As Niche Magazines Gain Popularity, Capital Region Publishers See Value in Paper and Ink

Meet the small-business magazine publishers who say print isn't dead

Comstock’s is one of the last remaining monthly magazines based in Sacramento, but it’s now part of a trend. Across the region and beyond, niche print magazines are gaining momentum.

Nov 24, 2025 Eric Schucht

Food Banks Brace for ‘Perfect Storm’ of Food Insecurity Heading Into the Holidays

SNAP food benefits are back, but anxieties linger

The record-breaking government shutdown and suspension of SNAP food benefits led what one food bank director says is the worst food insecurity crisis she has seen. 

Nov 21, 2025 Dakota Morlan

Essay: An Empty Nester’s Melancholy Travels Without His Children

For the Last Word essay column, a writer shares his recent travels through Europe without his children

I could, I felt, either wallow in sadness at this state of affairs or, with my wife, chart our own course and go to places that we had never previously visited, using the strangeness of new locales to ask myself a series of questions on, broadly speaking, what it all meant.

Nov 20, 2025 Sasha Abramsky

Thousands of Western Monarchs Winter in Santa Cruz — but Their Numbers Are Dwindling

November is the season for butterfly spotting at Natural Bridges State Beach

Through January, the only state-run monarch preserve in California becomes a magical stop for the overwintering western monarch butterflies.

Nov 19, 2025 Steve Martarano
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