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Guest Column: Program that paid homeless to work ended in failure. Here’s why

Two years ago, I wrote a column for The Sentinel outlining why I thought Sacramento County was in need of a work program for people who are homeless.

Guest Opinion: Public transit reduces congestion for everyone

By Kat Gray–The Sacramento Transportation Authority (STA) board is currently considering alternative transportation expenditure plans for a proposed new countywide sales tax measure for the November ballot. This proposal would double the existing transportation sales tax from half…

Ronald Lawrence, Citrus Heights

Guest Opinion: California’s homeless crisis and Citrus Heights’ local response

Guest column submitted by Police Chief Ron Lawrence–The growing California homeless population is alarming. Communities across our state have experienced unprecedented increases in homelessness, with some metropolitan cities reaching epidemic proportions. While homelessness was a main theme of…

Sue Frost, supervisor

Guest Column: Help is on the way for police responding to mental health crisis calls

Guest opinion column by County Supervisor Sue Frost– The discussion around the ever-growing homeless crisis often gets linked to the issue of mental illness, and rightfully so.

homeless camp

Guest Opinion: Here’s something we can all do to help end homelessness in Citrus Heights

Few people can see a ragged, dirty person pushing a pile of possessions in a shopping cart, or camped in a mass of tarps and blankets without processing a flood of emotion about homelessness.

Realtor’s Corner: Can artificial intelligence give an accurate price for your home?

It’s springtime in Citrus Heights and the birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming and you’re thinking: time to sell my home.

Guest Column: Our roads need repair, but new tax proposal is misguided

Guest opinion column by County Supervisor Sue Frost– Our roads are crumbling. That is not hyperbole, they are literally crumbling. And we don’t have the money or a realistic plan to fix them.

Guest Opinion: Citrus Heights needs a new charter school. Here’s how you can help

Updated Feb. 3, 8:42 a.m.–Guest opinion by Councilwoman Jeannie Bruins–Citrus Heights has the opportunity to offer more choice for public education to families and children living in our city with the opening of American River Collegiate Academy (ARCA),…

Guest Opinion: Church shootings, anti-Semitic attacks. It could happen here.

Last year, the Anti-Defamation League tracked more than 1,300 anti-Semitic incidents. That number includes the stabbing at a rabbi’s home last month in New York, followed by a gunman killing two churchgoers Texas the next day…

Guest Opinion: Citrus Heights is in good hands

As a resident of Citrus Heights from 1979 until 1989 and the owner of a Citrus Heights business from 1990 until present, I have watched with great pride what the community has accomplished in those 40 years.