Issue: March 19, 2020
This week, we focus on the coronavirus pandemic. Scott Thomas Anderson looks at the steps that City Hall is taking, including a relief fund for local businesses and a ban on some evictions. Graham Womack reports on efforts to protect Sacramento's vulnerable homeless population. Raheem F. Hosseini surveys how local school districts will continue to feed poor children, and also details the safety record of the Elk Grove seniors home where Sacramento County's first coronavirus-related death happened. And Steph Rodriguez talks to local restaurant owners about how they're adapting.
We also have stories on California families scrambling to adjust, on nurses and other health care workers worrying about getting infected and on the potential impact to California's economy.
Elsewhere in this issue, Lindsay Oxford highlights the arts events still planned this spring despite all the coronavirus cancellations in local entertainment venues. Debbie Arrington writes that the big San Francisco-Northern California Flower and Garden Show has also been canceled and Joey Garcia has some advice for love and relationships in the time of COVID-19.
Because local theaters have canceled plays, in place of Stage, Rachel Mayfield has some suggestions for your streaming list.
In News, Kris Hooks reports on a new study that says charter schools can boost African-American students—that was authored by charter schools.
In Voices, a SMUD solar customer argues that the utility is on the wrong track for clean energy, and I gauge the prospects of a new report full of cost-saving suggestions that just landed at City Hall.
And SN&R president Jeff vonKaenel announces that because of the steep drop in advertising due to the coronavirus crisis, we're suspending print publication, we hope only temporarily. To resume publication, we need your support more than ever. Please consider contributing at newsreview.com/sacramento/donate.
As always, thanks for reading. To read the full stories, click the links below. But don't forget to pick up a print copy of SN&R for exclusive event picks and other content.
— Foon Rhee
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Quarantine grandma?
California families scramble as coronavirus changes daily life.
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Bracing for financial impact
City leaders race to respond as coronavirus measures threaten small businesses and employees.
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Patience zero
Sacramento’s unsheltered populations at heightened risk with coronavirus.
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On the front lines
As coronavirus toll rises, so does health care workers’ alarm.
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What’s best for black students?
Public schools are failing them, but does that mean school choice is the answer?
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Where will hungry students eat?
In Sacramento County, some school districts have turned their shuttered campuses into afternoon drive-thrus.
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Assisted living—or sitting ducks?
Elk Grove care home where elderly woman with coronavirus died has a checkered health and safety record.
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Will coronavirus take down California’s economy?
The economic impact of coronavirus outbreak could be widespread, especially in tourism and trade.
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Safety from shutoffs
A growing number of utility providers are promising not to cut services to coronavirus-impacted customers.
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Folsom city miscues
Folsom City Council doesn’t give public a social distancing option to its ’emergency’ meeting about the coronavirus.
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Will City Hall bite the bullet?
A consultant says the city of Sacramento can save millions, but some ideas target workers and unions.
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Letters for March 19, 2020
Mental health, homelessness, plastics.
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Love in the time of COVID-19
The coronavirus outbreak is changing our lives.
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The right solar power
SMUD is on the wrong track on clean energy.
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Michelle Kuret, co-founder of Sacramento IANDS
Near-death experience stories provide hope.
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Surviving spring
Not everything’s canceled—yet. Check out these events for April and beyond.
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Spring into staying home
A guide to having fun without other people.
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Movies on a big screen amid coronavirus crisis
Mobile isolation pods are a necessity to see a movie in public.
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An open-mic without an audience
An open-mic without an audience. In other words, an open mic.
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Coronavirus cancellation
Big spring Flower Garden show is canceled over coronavirus concerns.
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No more eating out
Sacramento restaurants are adapting during the coronavirus crisis. Here’s how.
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Caffeine fiend
Instagram account shows a passion for coffee and a love for Sacramento.
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The green debate
Which 2020 presidential candidates have gone all in on cannabis reform?
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