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How To Die In Californianew
Brittany Maynard's high-profile death may help usher in a right-to-die option for terminally ill patients in the Golden State.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
01-22-2015 |
Health
Tags: right to die
Return of the Messengernew
How Jeremy Renner's new film Kill The Messenger will vindicate Sacramento investigative journalist Gary Webb.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
09-25-2014 |
Media
Everybody Diesnew
Everybody dies. Yes, even you. But nobody likes to talk about it. We're going to, though, right now.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
06-16-2011 |
Commentary
Net Neutrality: World War Webnew
The era of an open, egalitarian and transparent internet could soon come to a screeching halt in America -- unless we fight back.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Ruleboy livesnew
Marty Welsh, a local doctor known for living by the rules, is stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease. His sister tells the surprising story of the "new rules" he's come up with.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
02-07-2008 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Agree, or Don'tnew
Our book critics pick their best of 2007. Feel free to argue.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer, Kel Munger and Melinda Welsh |
12-06-2007 |
Books
Ralph Brave, 1953-2007new
To say that Ralph wrote crucial stories, shook the halls of power and touched the lives of many over the course of his long years as a journalist and at SN&R is an understatement.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
09-06-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
Food, Farms and a Billnew
The 2007 farm bill should prioritize healthful foods and sustainable farms.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
08-06-2007 |
Commentary
The Gore Attacknew
Someone exceptional seems to have erupted from the trappings of the old, more conventional politician -- the new Gore 2.0 talks smart and straight, and The Assault on Reason eviscerates the Bush administration while exploring the strange new American dialogue.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
06-14-2007 |
Nonfiction
Heart and Soulnew
Molly Ivins is gone -- have we learned what she taught?
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
02-08-2007 |
Commentary
2 Hours to L.A. -- Why Not?new
Instead of embracing high-speed rail as a key part of California's transit destiny, the governor seems to be orchestrating it's prolonged death.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
02-01-2007 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation
Save It Nownew
It's now or never to save the Earth, E.O. Wilson writes in a new book, addressed to an imagined Southern Baptist minister.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
11-24-2006 |
Nonfiction
Our Man in Spacenew
Steve Robinson, recently returned from the shuttle mission, explains why humans go exploring, how there’s probably life on other planets, and what his home ground of Sacramento looks like from outer space.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
09-09-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Soldier's Storynew
A Marine, killed in Iraq, leaves behind an extended family with differing opinions about the war.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
03-25-2005 |
War
Tags: war & peace
Bringing Down a Damnew
It was 1923 when engineers flooded Yosemite's magnificent Hetch Hetchy Valley. If building the O'Shaughnessy Dam can be seen as a glorious accomplishment of the 20th century, would tearing it down be a worthy testament to the 21st?
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
01-24-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
