Midterm roundup: Kiley fundraising off concerns about radical associations
Friday night, South Carolina’s capital newspaper The State reported House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) swung by that state GOP’s...
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Nov. 13, 2022 – Vol. 3, Issue 5
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Jeff Burdick
Jul 31, 2022
Obituary for Sacramento Bee election coverage
The Washington Post has the most memorable and consequential motto in journalism: “Democracy dies in darkness.” Adopted in 2017, the...
Pat Needles
Jul 31, 2022
How ADA compliant is your website? Digital accessibility lawsuits rise in California
Pat Needles is vice president of Equidox PDF Accessibility Solutions, an Ohio-based firm that specializes in helping organizations make...
Jeff Burdick
Jul 12, 2022
Kurinsky-Malos on managing hot CA-3 House race in momentous times
A 25-year-old Oregon native, Michaela Kurinsky-Malos has worked every election cycle since 2016 including in Oregon, Washington, Illinois...
Justin Ha
Jul 12, 2022
California College Republican on students, CRT & generational politics
Christian Lucia Hunter of Dixon, Calif., is the Northern Regional Director for the California College Republicans. After first attending...
Jeff Burdick
Jul 12, 2022
AD-5 candidate Rebecca Chenoweth on her husband’s healthcare fraud conviction
With 94% of the June 7 primary vote counted, Rebecca Chenoweth is currently in first place in California Assembly District 5 which...
Jeff Burdick
Jun 24, 2022
Can David (Dodson) topple Democrats’ unethical “goliath”?
The four elected seats on the California Board of Equalization (BOE) are the least powerful and least sexy of California’s constitutional...
Justin Ha
Jun 24, 2022
Thanks for the memorabilia! Reno to host return of political collectibles convention next month
Covid threw a wrench into a lot of national convention schedules. So it may be with a sigh of relief for political memorabilia lovers...
Susannah Saunders & Rebecca Elliot
Jun 24, 2022
Mission critical: CPUC can (finally) meet its mission by saving rooftop solar incentives
Revision of California’s rooftop solar program has received more guest essay submissions than any other issue in SactoPolitico.com...
Ed Millican
Jun 24, 2022
San Bernardino County Democrats unified behind pair of union issues
Ed Millican is an elected member of the central committee of the San Bernardino County Democratic Party and a California Teachers...
Jeff Burdick
Jun 9, 2022
18 y.o. Santa Clarita organizer on March for Our Lives & gun violence ‘dread’
This Sunday, June 11, March for Our Lives will convene its second set of nationwide marches against gun violence – especially in U.S....
Elizabeth Galante
Jun 9, 2022
Rooftop solar advice for Gov. Newsom from low-income solar installer
California’s Net Energy Metering program (NEM) has encouraged about 9% of the state’s electrical ratepayers to install solar systems on...
Jeff Burdick
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...
Jeff Burdick
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...
Irene Kao & Hatzune Aguilar
May 22, 2022
Latinx Voters key to Dems flipping Central Valley seats & keeping U.S. House
Irene Kao is executive director of Courage California, a statewide progressive organization uniting communities for progressive change,...
Jeff Burdick
May 16, 2022
After SactoPolitico probes, US House members change fundraising tactic; donor refunded $1,000
“Accountability journalism” strives to hold individuals – usually the powerful – accountable for activities that, while legal, may...
Jeff Burdick
May 16, 2022
Progressive House candidate Derek Marshall on winning rural votes
Progressive Derek Marshall is challenging freshman GOP Congressman Jay Obernolte in the new CA-23 Congressional District, which comprises...
Jeff Burdick
May 16, 2022
H.S. journalist Justin Ha on asking Kevin Kiley about speaking at radical’s rally
Justin Ha is a 17-year-old news editor for the Granite Bay High School newspaper in Placer County, Calif. In February, he became the only...
Jeff Burdick
May 16, 2022
Can Sacramento Progressive finish Top 2 in CA-7 House race?
In California districts dominated by a single party, the state’s all-in primary system creates a very different kind of voting choice –...
Omid Manavirad
May 16, 2022
$50M state aid for Sacto’s American River opposed by homeless groups
This story was produced by the award-winning newsweekly Sacramento News & Review and co-published here with permission. California...
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