Judge orders city of Sacramento to place rent control on November ballot
A California appeals court judge has ordered the city of Sacramento to place a rent control measure on the November 2020 ballot, ending a two-year…
Articles by Dave Kempa
Sacramento County continues its leftward lean
A VOICES: River City analysis of recent Sacramento County voter registration numbers has found a shift toward Democratic voters in the county in recent years–with…
Midtown church shutters overnight shelter, leaving 16 Sacramentans outdoors
Some 16 Sacramentans experiencing homelessness may have to sleep outside tonight after Midtown’s St Francis of Assisi Parish alerted them that they will be shutting…
Voices: River City, Episode 26: The K-Hole
In this episode of the VOICES: River City podcast, Skyler and Kempa discuss the end of California Senator Kamala Harris’s 2020 presidential run. We also…
Voices: River City, Episode 25: Mary-oke
The VOICES: crew has a special guest this week in Shannon Stevens from Maryhouse, an emergency daytime drop-in center for women experiencing homelessness at Sacramento…
Voices: River City podcast, episode 24: Bad Faith Darrell
VOICES: is back! And this week is a doozy. Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg is mad. Big mad. So is the opinion editor at the Sacramento…
Developers, anti-renters’-rights interests pour money into Sacramento City Council
Last June, heavy-hitting developer Mark Friedman gave $3,500 to Sacramento mayor Darell Steinberg’s 2020 campaign. So did his mother, Marcine, and his wife, Marjorie. Those…
Sacramento City Council Members who proposed nonbinding tenant-landlord mediation have taken tens of thousands of dollars from anti-renters’-rights interests
In the second half of 2018, Sacramento tenants, landlords and developers were embroiled in a debate over renters’ protections. In an attempt to placate both…
VOICES: returns
Hello. Dave Kempa here, editor and publisher of VOICES: River City. Checking in to tell you that we’re back – albeit in a more tempered…
Capital Stage kicks off season with The Wolves, a radical look at ingroups, outgroups and the human condition
Pol Pot and tampons. Civil liberties. Episcopalians. Empathy for history’s monsters. What else would nine teenage girls discuss while stretching before their indoor soccer match…
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