Community Voices
Guest Opinion: Pay attention to who’s running for local school board
By David Warren– “Coloured people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it. Someone’s written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are…
Guest Column: Some hope for residents fed up with homeless camps, trash
By Supervisor Sue Frost– The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors on Aug. 11 unanimously approved two ordinances that will ban homeless encampments in several important locations. As this was an intensely controversial…
Guest Column: What you should know about Sacramento County’s $7.3B budget
By Sue Frost– The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors on June 9 voted unanimously to approve the $7.3 billion recommended budget for Fiscal Year 2022-2023.
GUEST OPINION: Rent control won’t solve housing crisis, but more construction will
California voters went to the polls last November and voted overwhelmingly to reject the Local Rent Control Initiative (Prop 10). I was one of the only local elected officials in our region who was publicly outspoken in my…
Guest Opinion: Here’s a better alternative to banning flavored tobacco sales
Earlier this year, in an attempt to curb teen smoking, the City of Sacramento voted to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products (including flavored e-cigarette cartridges), and soon the County of Sacramento will be facing a decision…
Guest Opinion: Cardrooms have a positive effect in Citrus Heights, across California
For decades, cardrooms have been making multi-million-dollar investments in our communities through tax revenues, local jobs and capital improvements…
GUEST OPINION: SmaRT Ride is a bad replacement for bus routes
I am very concerned with the upcoming Sacramento Regional Transit changes this September, mostly due to the idea that SmaRT Ride can fill in the gap…
Guest Column: remembering our city’s own fight for independence
ONE SCORE and 2 years ago, our city fathers brought forth in Sacramento County the new city of Citrus Heights, fought for through the court system and dedicated to the proposition that county governments are not monarchical in…
Guest Opinion: AB 516 would wrongfully remove right to tow blight vehicles
One of the more common reasons that people call my office is to plead for help in getting junky/abandoned vehicles removed from their neighborhood…
Guest Opinion: Sunrise Mall doesn’t have to die.
As a lifelong resident of Citrus Heights and a Macy Plaza Drive apartment dweller, my heart breaks on an almost daily basis as I drive to work and see the remains of our once grand and bustling mall…
Guest Opinion: Governor’s housing plan unfairly penalizes cities, counties
Governor Gavin Newsom announced earlier this year that he was going to make housing his top priority and called for 3.5 million new homes to be built in California within six years…
Guest Opinion: AB 392 is not the answer for police use of force
There is a bill quickly making its way through the California Legislature (AB 392) that, if passed, will create a highly subjective standard for evaluating and holding law enforcement officers criminally liable for using force when responding to…
