From the Editor/OpEds

Jun 9, 2022

Time for new Constitutional amendments? History says ‘yes’

Quick quiz: Last month marked the 30th anniversary of the most recent U.S. Constitutional amendment. What was it? Answer: The...

Jun 9, 2022

How ‘voter apathy’ should inspire the news media

In the last week, a bit of digital ink was spilled about how registered voter turnout for California’s primaries this week would be far...

Dec 15, 2021

Year-in-Review: Our 10 best political articles of 2021

Foremost, 2021 will be remembered as the second year of the Covid-19 Pandemic, but it was also an extremely busy year in politics –...

Sep 9, 2021

A proud anniversary covering California politics

With this issue, the SactoPolitico.com marks its first full year of publishing. Coincidentally, that’s the paper anniversary, which is...

Aug 30, 2021

Why we published: Great Debate Mystery stories

This the third time I’ve written a “Why we published” editorial in the Sacto Politico’s first year of existence. Each time, the occasion...

Jun 15, 2021

Editorial: Why we published SEIU Local 1000 story

On June 10, The Sacto Politico published a fascinating and informative Q&A interview with in-coming SEIU Local 1000 President Richard...

Jan 19, 2021

Sacramento’s riot of heated rhetoric included Sac Bee

Many thanks to the Sacramento News & Review (SNR) last week running most of my OpEd about inflammatory local rhetoric that blemished the...

Dec 15, 2020

S/P OpEd follow-up: Campaign coffers for common good?

This story is part of Sacto Politico’s ongoing “Shame of Our Campaigns” series. Maine’s unsuccessful Senate candidate Sara Gideon made...

Oct 9, 2020

Why we published Patterson scoops

This package exposes a surprising number of far-right connections by a major-party-endorsed candidate for Congress (Buzz Patterson, CA-7).

Sep 15, 2020

Welcome to SactoPolitico.com

The inspiration for this site was to address the increasing lack of quality local political coverage that’s essential to democracy.

Sep 11, 2020

Can Biden produce permanent campaign finance reform?

Even though Biden will have raised more than $1 billion, I can still see a scenario in which he takes up campaign finance in earnest.