AltWeeklies Wire
12 Ways Republicans Keep Screwing Over Poor Americans and Womennew

A dozen low-down, dirty, shameful ways the GOP makes it bad to be broke in 21st-century America.
Sacramento News & Review |
Sasha Abramsky |
11-15-2013 |
Poverty
Tags: Poverty
Meg Whitman and Jerry Brownnew
Who are they and what do they stand for? Profiling the two candidates for governor of California.
Sacramento News & Review |
Sasha Abramsky |
08-23-2010 |
Politics
Tags: Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman
Extremist Republicans are Crushing Dissent Within Their Own Partynew
Extremist Republicans are crushing dissent within their own party, creating a California state legislature that can’t work. That's not won't work; that's can't work. This ideological extremism is evident in the party, from the national stage to local boards.
Sacramento News & Review |
Sasha Abramsky |
01-11-2010 |
Politics
Hiding Out in Sacramento in 1967new
The Summer of Love was centered in San Francisco, but California's Central Valley got its share of hippies, trippers and Panthers, too.
Sacramento News & Review |
Sasha Abramsky |
06-07-2007 |
History
Tags: history
50,000 Voltsnew
Taser guns have become a favored control device for local law-enforcement officers, but something's gone wrong with this "nonlethal" weapon. In Sacramento, as well as across the nation, the dead bodies are mounting.
Sacramento News & Review |
Sasha Abramsky |
11-17-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
War-Zone Pollsternew
Steven Moore set up shop in Baghdad as an opinion pollster and focus-group organizer in the chaotic environs of Iraq.
Sacramento News & Review |
Sasha Abramsky |
05-06-2005 |
International
Tags: international