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Public order and people-proofing the city

Public order and people-proofing the city

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What has Sacramento’s camping ordinance accomplished?

What has Sacramento’s camping ordinance accomplished?

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Blazing a trail in South Land Park

Blazing a trail in South Land Park

This week’s interview is with Brian Ebbert, a South Land Park resident, and president of the neighborhood association there.
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Are Sacramento’s new ethics rules worth the wait?

Are Sacramento’s new ethics rules worth the wait?

In the last interview we heard from Common Cause and the League of Women voters, about a set of ethics reforms that are working their way…
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Your damn emails: Ethics reform in the post-KJ era

Your damn emails: Ethics reform in the post-KJ era

What a difference a mayor makes? Darrell Steinberg made ethics reform a week 1 priority, after it had been short-shrifted and slow-walked…
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A grand tour of Sacramento’s housing crisis

A grand tour of Sacramento’s housing crisis

This week’s interview is with Veronica Beaty, land use policy director for the Sacramento Housing Alliance. Veronica gives a great overview…
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Housing complex

Housing complex

My guest is Sacramento State economics professor Rob Wassmer. Rob teaches in the public policy program at Sac State, and he’s director of…
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Uber’s missing link

Uber’s missing link

Is Sac RT’s “Station Link” program excluding some disabled riders?
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STAR Power

STAR Power

One of the main ideas behind the podcast, the main idea really, is that I wanted to be able to dive deeply into the topics that I’m…
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Sacramento’s new downtown

Sacramento’s new downtown

The Sacramento City Council is likely to approve the downtown railyards development plan this Thursday, November 10. Most of the buzz about…
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Here comes success!

Here comes success!

I used to enjoy walking around the end-of-life Downtown Plaza because it was like being an anthropologist, exploring the ruin of a bygone…
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