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“I need a ride!”

April 9, 2021 Sacramento Regional Transit District

by Thea Marie Rood With many schools open or reopening, and summer just around the corner, Sacramento kids need some safe, reliable transportation. Sacramento Regional Transit District is providing plenty of buses, light rail trains […]

Local Issues

916 Ink Perseveres

February 11, 2021 California Endowment

BY EDGAR SANCHEZ The joyful parties at The Imaginarium are over for now—and Ian Hadley, the gracious host, misses them. The Imaginarium is not a dance hall but a young people’s writing center in South […]

Local Issues

Taking Root

November 24, 2020 California Endowment

BY EDGAR SANCHEZ In March 2016, Alfred Melbourne walked out of Wasco State Prison in Kern County—free at last. He had served 18 years for assault with a firearm and assault with a deadly weapon. […]

Youth

Calling All Kids!

October 29, 2020 Sacramento Regional Transit District

by Thea Marie Rood Especially with the weather turning cooler—and the rainy season on the horizon—Sacramento kids need some safe, reliable transportation. Not only is the Sacramento Regional Transit District providing plenty of buses, light […]

Local Issues

Kids Ride Free on SacRT

October 22, 2020 Sacramento Regional Transit District

by Thea Marie Rood The Sacramento Regional Transit District’s fare-free transit program, which waives fares for students and youth in transitional kindergarten through 12th grade across SacRT’s service area, has been extended for another year, […]

Youth

RydeFreeRT: A Proven Success

October 15, 2020 Sacramento Regional Transit District

by Thea Marie Rood The Sacramento Regional Transit District’s fare-free program, which waives fares for students and youth in transitional kindergarten through 12th grade across SacRT’s service area, has been extended for another year, through […]

Local Issues

Defunding School Resource Officers

July 15, 2020 California Endowment

BY EDGAR SANCHEZ For 20 years, some members of the Sacramento Police Department had one mission: to help provide security for the Sacramento City Unified School District in their role as school resource officers, or […]

Child Support

Support for Dads

July 2, 2020 Sacramento County Department of Child Support Services

by Corey Rodda Fathers with full custody or partial custody can receive child support, but many men do not see child support as a resource that they are eligible for. Alec Poe was 18 years […]

Local Issues

Youth Campaign for More Funding

February 13, 2020 California Endowment

BY EDGAR SANCHEZ Four years ago, Dexter Niskala, then a junior at Luther Burbank High, campaigned for Measure Y, which would have created a new tax to fund children’s programs in Sacramento. “I asked hundreds […]

Education

WALKSacramento Strives to Ensure the Safety of Sacramento Students

December 19, 2019 California Endowment

BY EDGAR SANCHEZ Five days a week, thousands of boys and girls throughout Sacramento walk to school and back—putting themselves in peril. At many corners, the children face motorists who might run red lights and […]

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