Earlier this month, Elk Grove News editor D.A. Gougherty made an interesting observation on his podcast after California’s Democratic...

Sacramento County-resident Lee Miller is a Board Member with Solar Rights Alliance, a statewide nonprofit association of California solar...

A major story involving the largest public employee union in California continues to unwind like a soap opera – though a soap opera with...

Dave Rosenfeld is the executive director of the San Diego-based Solar Rights Alliance. He has been a community organizer for more than 20...

For the 2nd holiday season, Sacto Politico takes a step back from raw politics to ask another non-political question of a varied...

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

Robert Herrell is executive director of the Consumer Federation of California (CFC), a statewide non-profit that has been advocating for...

Steve Woolpert is professor of politics at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California. Is California too big to govern? In our state’s...

California’s draft Congressional maps are changing fast. Saturday, Sacto Politico published our first distillation of the first draft...

A small tremor rumbled through California politics this week when the state’s Citizens Redistricting Commission released its earliest...

SEIU Local 1000 is by far California’s largest union of state employees with nearly 100,000 represented members and a $46 million annual...

Every election provides sort of an MRI snapshot of the health of the democratic process. Take California’s recent recall election. This...

Following the landslide defeat of the $276 million recall, a prominent storyline has been how many state Republicans were in threadbare...

A major challenge for achieving effective governance involves shrinking newsrooms. As far less about government gets covered, citizens...

Jack Dean is President of District Labor Council 792 within SEIU Local 1000. He lives in Susanville, Calif., and is a member of the...

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

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...

This article was updated at 10:20 a.m. PT based on new information. See editor’s notes. When political candidates take debate questions...

Realtor and self-described financial educator Kevin Paffrath is the shiny, new addition to the recall election. But many who didn’t see...

Over the last four California Recall Debates – including last night’s – the potential replacement candidates have answered dozens of...