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Doug Linney
Apr 28, 2021
Guest Essay: 100% Zero-Emission Vehicles by 2030?
This month, California lost its decades-long lead at the environmental forefront. In the race to eliminate one of the largest sources of...
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Jeff Burdick
Apr 14, 2021
Sacto Metro House members largely mum on infrastructure
Two weeks ago, President Joe Biden proposed his eight-year $2.3 trillion “American Jobs Plan.” This would be the largest infrastructure...
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Jeff Burdick
Apr 14, 2021
Sac Bee: What dangerous extremists? None here.
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Americans were told “See something. Say something.” Generally though, such reminders should be...
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Calif. Assemblymember Miguel Santiago
Apr 14, 2021
Guest Essay: AB 1177 to open banking options for all
COVID-19 put a spotlight on a troubling reality: Black and Brown Californians work disproportionately as frontline essential workers in...
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Jeff Burdick
Apr 14, 2021
Orangevale by the numbers: Reason for GOP concern
Orangevale is keystone of the once overwhelmingly Republican northeast corner of Sacramento County. But while Folsom has already turned...
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Jeff Burdick
Mar 31, 2021
Former FEC Chair Ravel on recall donations, dark money
While sitting on board of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) from 2013 to 2017 – including one stint as chair – native Californian Ann...
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Delaine Eastin
Mar 31, 2021
Candidate essay: Let’s build a better Calif. Dem. Party
Editor’s note: Between now and April 21, more than 3,000 delegates to the California Democratic Party will have the chance to vote by...
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Rusty Hicks
Mar 31, 2021
Candidate Essay: Proven Leadership in Challenging Times
Editor’s note: Between now and April 21, more than 3,000 delegates to the California Democratic Party will have the chance to vote by...
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Jeff Burdick
Mar 31, 2021
GOP slips more in latest California registration stats
There is Red versus Blue in politics. Then there is just going into the red as a party. Despite the California GOP believing the recall...
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Jeff Burdick
Mar 10, 2021
Calif. GOP chair, Asm. Kiley rallied with extremists
Sunday afternoon, the drive to collect 1.5 million verified signatures and trigger a recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom reached a...
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Jeff Burdick
Mar 10, 2021
Local effect of new Chamber of Commerce endorsing rules
Quietly last Friday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce posted a memo online announcing changes moving forward to its criteria for supporting...
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Jeff Burdick
Mar 10, 2021
Are midterm losses inevitable for Democrats? Maybe not
The deadly Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol represented a historic low for the Republican Party. Despite this, House Minority...
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Caity Maple
Mar 10, 2021
Candidate Essay: For Shared Prosperity in Sacramento
When I left home at the age of 16, I remember thinking that I would be back at some point – I was wrong. I found myself bouncing around...
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Jeff Burdick
Feb 23, 2021
Punchbowl.News John Bresnahan on California in Congress
Along with two other highly esteemed D.C. correspondents, veteran Capitol Hill reporter John Bresnahan earlier this year launched the...
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Jeff Burdick
Feb 23, 2021
Matsui, Bera letting public foot opioid settlements
The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post recently reported that four major opioid makers and distributors are close to finalizing a...
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Jeff Burdick
Feb 23, 2021
Fine(d) Bedfellows, Part 2: Where we go from here
This is the second of two articles in a series. Click here for part one. Last issue, a Sacto Politico study detailed the tens of millions...
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Jeff Burdick
Feb 23, 2021
California Progressives step back in ADEM elections
Earlier this month, the California Democratic Party completed its 2021 election of district-level delegates to the state party central...
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Jeff Burdick
Feb 5, 2021
Fine(d) Bedfellows Pt. 1: Worst corporations donate big
This article is part one of two, and part of Sacto Politico’s ongoing “Shame of Our Campaigns” series. For other articles in the series,...
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Jeff Burdick
Feb 5, 2021
Where are extreme Aug. 1 rally speakers today?
On Aug. 1, 2020, on the steps of the California Capitol, the far-right “Rescue America Rally” gathered hundreds of angry Trump supporters...
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Jeff Burdick
Feb 5, 2021
Growing Rancho Cordova gets younger, more Progressive
To hear most Democratic residents of Rancho Cordova explain it, Rancho Cordova is a politically conservative to moderate municipality. “I...
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