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A neighborhood apart: Gas storage plan rekindles old feelings of division
A divided California Public Utilities Commission is poised to approve or deny a controversial proposal to store 8 billion cubic feet of natural gas three-quarters of a mile beneath 700 homes in...
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Ginger Rutland: 'First Generation' shows low-income students' dedication
I walked away from "First Generation" haunted. The documentary, screened at Sacramento's downtown Esquire Imax Theatre earlier this month, chronicles two crucial years in the lives of four California...
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Foon Rhee: Angela Madsen helps veterans heal through sports
Noah Bailey didn't want to say much about how he lost both his legs to a roadside bomb in Afghanistan 6 1/2 years ago, or how he's tried to cope since. Angela Madsen instructs fellow disabled veteran...
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Foon Rhee: City charter panel will be a special interest slugfest
I want to believe that Sacramento's proposed charter commission will be a model of small-"d" democracy. I'd like to trust supporters who promise an open and intelligent look at whether the city's...
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Foon Rhee: County exhibits at State Fair suffer with the economy
I still believe the California State Fair could use some fresh ideas some pizazz to flourish in the 21st century. Placer County's 2010 exhibit won Best of Show at the State Fair. While Placer has a...
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Ginger Rutland: Food trucks and restaurants - can't we all just get along?
There must have been a thousand people at Garcia Bend Park in Sacramento's Pocket neighborhood on Wednesday night for the SactoMoFo Food Festival. The owner of Chando's hopes his food truck will...
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Foon Rhee: Sadly, there's no end in sight to Rio Linda's water torture
They cut the ribbon Thursday on Rio Linda's long-overdue new well. Lots of places, there would have been a festive community celebration. Foon Rhee
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Ginger Rutland: Passionate partisans preferred on cable TV
Today's television news landscape, particularly cable, takes my breath away. It's so different, so loud and coarse, so blatantly partisan from the over-the-air TV news of my increasingly distant...
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Foon Rhee: Military offers truce in immigration wars
Kapil Tiwari was a teenager in Nepal dreaming of coming to America. Airman Kapil Tiwari waves a flag as comrades inspect his new citizenship certificate after a ceremony at Travis Air Force Base....
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Foon Rhee: A third President Bush? No thanks. The Oval Office is no place for...
As Barack Obama and many others never tire of telling us, part of the American Dream is that anyone can grow up to be president. Foon Rhee
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Ginger Rutland: An era's searing memories
I've been captivated by "The Dust Bowl," Ken Burns' illuminating TV documentary that ran for two nights on PBS last week. In the 1930s a decade-long drought combined with poor farming practices created...
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Ginger Rutland: Christmas traditions, yuletide transitions
"Aaah," my sister-in-law whined plaintively, just the other morning. "That used to be my job." Ginger Rutland
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Foon Rhee: The price of our never-ending war on terror isn't just U.S....
Sometimes it can seem like the war on terror is never going to end. Pakistani boys chant slogans during a June rally in Karachi to protest U.S. drone strikes in tribal areas. President Barack Obama has...
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Foon Rhee: A catchy, but unofficial slogan for downtown Sacramento
It's not going to be downtown Sacramento's official new marketing slogan, but it does have a certain ring to it "slummy but sexy." Foon Rhee
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Foon Rhee: Will new Sacramento City Council be on the same page?
If you've been through a touchy-feely team-building exercise at your office, you sort of know what it was like for Sacramento City Council members. Foon Rhee
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Pia Lopez: Mali deserves more than military response
Mali, at the crossroads of Arab North Africa and black West Africa, tends to be one of too many places in the world where we Americans remain blissfully ignorant until a military or other emergency. A...
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Foon Rhee: Can't we all share the highway safely?
For me, one of the most unnerving parts of driving in California is when motorcycles rocket past, inches away, in between lanes on the freeway. Foon Rhee
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Editorial Notebook: Once inaccessible, Berryessa Peak is an island no more
Not far from Sacramento and Davis, the Inner Coast Range beckons hikers, particularly around the Berryessa Reservoir. Pia Lopez plopez@sacbee.com Organizers of a new public trail in Napa and Yolo...
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Foon Rhee: Vets seek a path out of the darkness
There were a record 349 suicides last year in the active-duty military, many more than were killed fighting in Afghanistan. But the specter of suicide doesn't end once service members come home. It...
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Pia Lopez: Lack of trust is barrier to stable Mideast
More than three decades ago this month, the shah of Iran was overthrown, and the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ushered in a Shiite theocracy. Nine months later, Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy...
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