The Way We Work: Steve Pleau
A glimpse into the daily life of the CEO of Future Automotive Group
Despite turning 78 this year, Pleau still heads to the office every day to rally the troops, monitor customer satisfaction, and follow his North Star: “My real focus is on expansion,” says Pleau. “I’m not done.”
The Man Who Buys the Capital Region’s Dying Newspapers
Paul Scholl has accumulated 18 print newspapers in under two decades
Paul Scholl started a newspaper about two decades ago to promote his services as a hospice chaplain. Now he brings relief to papers on their deathbeds. How did Scholl come to not only own 18 papers but to make them financially sustainable?
Late-Night Dining Returns to Sacramento
After a pandemic slump, it’s again possible to get a meal past midnight in the capital
When the pandemic put a plug on nightlife, some of the spots that fed that world either whittled down their hours or closed outright. In the past few years, though, options have been respawning on the grid and surrounding areas. Their colorful, contagiously optimistic atmosphere echoes the mood of Sacramento nightlife’s post-pandemic resurgence.
Photo Essay: For 2 Weeks in October, Sacramento Transforms from Heavy Metal to Country Music
Back-to-back music festivals Aftershock and GoldenSky draw headbangers and boot-stompers by the tens of thousands.
Bring Back the Dinner Party
Let’s slow down and enjoy good food and conversation with friends
“A dinner party, to me, is putting people around a table and feeding them and nourishing them and having great conversations and lingering over the table and connecting,” Peg Tomlinson-Poswall says. “Food is universal. It’s what connects all of us, no matter what country you go to, once you sit at the table.”
This Midtown Jewel Box Was a Diamond in the Rough
The condemned Victorian sat vacant until a visionary couple took notice
For years, Mike Baddley walked his dog from his J Street office past a dilapidated little house on the corner of 24th and I Streets in Midtown. “I was fascinated with it,” he says. The abandoned folk Victorian-style house, built in 1893 for H.L. Cuthirth, had been deemed by the city a substandard building, meaning not safe for occupancy.
Startup of the Month: Red Line Safety
Wearable tech on track to transform fire services
Red Line Safety, Scott Holman’s Sacramento-based startup, is enhancing firefighter safety and efficiency with wearable technology that monitors a firefighter’s location, vital signs, environmental conditions and toxic gas exposure in real time.
Dilemma of the Month: Can I Go on Vacation While I’m Baby Bonding?
I know I was singled out because I’m an HR employee and was told,
“It looks bad,” but do you think I should tell my boss
(nicely and professionally) to shove it and that I’ll bond with
my next baby any way I see fit?
How Did We Get Here?
A politician, a pastor, a PR exec, a psychologist and a professor try to get at the root of the ugly discourse in our country
The drivers of divisiveness were decades in the making. From the 1950s to 1980s, the “Big Three” networks of ABC, NBC and CBS created a sort of monoculture — a shared set of TV shows, water cooler talk and facts that society could agree on. Today, the news media is fractured, and we can’t even agree on the facts.
The Capital City Celebrates Inaugural Sacramento Poetry Week
The week was a host to a variety of events featuring new and veteran poets
Spoken word took over the capital last week as the city celebrated its inaugural Sacramento Poetry Week.