December 2021 - Press Highlights
City Council adopts "land acknowledgement" to honor original inhabitants of Sacramento before each meeting
Members and officials from Wilton Rancheria conduct prayers and blessings outside of City hall
Sacramento (Dec. 14, 2021) City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday to adopt an official City of Sacramento Land Acknowledgement to be read at the beginning of every meeting of the Sacramento City Council and its subsidiary committees, boards, and bodies.
The Land Acknowledgement will honor and recognize that the city was built on the lands of tribes whose descendants continue to live here today. It is a formal statement that recognizes the unique and enduring relationship between Indigenous Peoples and their traditional territories. To recognize the land is an expression of gratitude and appreciation to those whose territory we reside on. Read more…
Print & Online
Homeward Bound - Sacramento Magazine - Dec. 29, 2021
Wayne Thiebaud, Sacramento’s celebrated artist of the everyday, dies at 101 - Sacramento Bee - Dec. 26, 2021
Lawmakers agree: Little change in CA’s mental health care system - Capitol Weekly - Dec. 23, 2021
Making an Acknowledgement - Comstock’s Magazine - Dec. 23, 2021
Land acknowledgement in the state capital for Indigenous People - a step towards widespread change - Davis Vanguard - Dec. 21, 2021
Sacramento could soon open a homeless respite center. See what the city is planning - Sacramento Bee - Dec. 21, 2021
CalFocus: Should Californians have a right to shelter? - Sonoma-Index Tribune - Dec. 20, 2021
Lester becomes Sacramento’s first woman police chief - Sacramento Observer - Dec. 17, 2021
Sacramento bigwigs want politicians to ‘step back’ on homelessness. Why don’t they step up? - Sacramento Bee - Dec. 16, 2021
‘Atonement’: Sacramento City Council meetings will acknowledge Indigenous people, lands - Sacramento Bee - Dec. 15, 2021
Senior high-rise in Sacramento evacuated after substation fire knocks out power - Sacramento Bee - Dec. 15, 2021
Sacramento will continue towing vehicles used by homeless, rejecting mayor’s proposal - Sacramento Bee - Dec. 15, 2021
Oak Park gentrification: $5 million Aggie Square fund to protect tenants from displacement - Sacramento Bee - Dec. 14, 2021
New refrigerator for X Street shelter could help ‘feed the soul’ of its residents - Sacramento Bee - Dec. 14, 2021
Sacramento council to consider to stop towing homeless vehicles unless city can offer shelter - Sacramento Bee - Dec. 10, 2021
Upgraded Del Paso Sports Complex unveiled - Sacramento Observer - Dec. 10, 2021
Mayor Steinberg, councilwoman criticize sweep. Will city continue crackdown on homeless vehicles? - Sacramento Bee - Dec. 8, 2021
CIM returns Sunday to Sacramento with large international contingent - Elk Grove Citizen - Dec. 4, 2021
‘Gimme Shelter’: Sacramento plans to give homeless residents the right to housing - Los Angeles Times - Dec. 3, 2021
Colour of Music Festival graces Sacramento, highlights black classical performers - Sacramento Observer - Dec. 3, 2021
$300 million in grants offered in Clean California program - Porterville Recorder - Dec. 3, 2021
Sacramento’s Studio T is teaching local kids how to become social media ‘youthpreneurs’ - Sacramento Bee - Dec. 2, 2021
Caltrans seeks beautification project proposals - Daily Republic - Dec. 2, 2021
Community remembers Sacramento's first elected female mayor Anne Rudin, who passed away at 97 - Gold Country Media - Dec. 2, 2021
Does Sacramento’s plan to make housing a right empower the homeless or just corral them? - The Globe and Mail - Dec. 1, 2021
‘Elk Grove is not our rival.’ Some Sacramento leaders seem ready to let zoo relocate - Sacramento Bee - Dec. 1, 2021
Sacramento City Council divided on fight to keep the zoo - Sacramento Business Journal - Dec. 1, 2021
TV & Radio
Sacramento to open warming centers on New Year’s Eve as rain, freezing temps continue - Capital Public Radio - Dec. 28, 2021
World-renowned Sacramento painter Wayne Thiebaud dies at 101 - KCRA3 - Dec. 26, 2021
Sacramento and California residents remember literary legend Joan Didion - Capital Public Radio - Dec. 23, 2021
'The goal is to keep local dollars local': New gift card program hopes to support Sacramento businesses - KCRA3 - Dec. 21, 2021
Sacramento offers bonus e-gift cards to help local businesses - KTXL Fox40 - Dec. 21, 2021
Several warming centers to open across Sacramento region as another cold front approaches - Capital Public Radio - Dec. 17, 2021
City of Sacramento to continue towing vehicles where people are living inside despite mayor's alternate plan - KCRA3 - Dec. 16, 2021
Sacramento’s mayor wanted to stop towing homeless people’s shelter vehicles. City Council rejected that plan - Capital Public Radio - Dec. 16, 2021
City of Sacramento officials give an update on assistance for hundreds of displaced seniors after massive explosion - ABC10 - Dec. 14, 2021
Sacramento will require government meetings to begin with recognition of Indigenous and tribal land rights - Capital Public Radio - Dec. 14, 2021
Sacramento City Council denies plan preventing the towing of cars used as homes, plans to revisit issue in March - ABC10 - Dec. 14, 2021
CA issues indoor mask mandate | Mayors of Sacramento, Stockton & South Lake Tahoe reflect on 2021 | “Hepcat’s Holla Daze Swingin’ Yuletide Revue” at The Sofia - Capital Public Radio - Dec. 14, 2021
Several Sacramento respite centers open after being closed during first night of rainstorm - Capital Public Radio - Dec. 13, 2021
Sacramento promotes Kathy Lester as city's first woman police chief - KCRA3 - Dec. 11, 2021
Sacramento hires first woman as chief of police - Capital Public Radio - Dec. 10, 2021
City of Sacramento names next police chief - Good Day Sacramento - Dec. 10, 2021
Sacramento to open warming centers Thursday and Friday nights - Capital Public Radio - Dec. 9, 2021
Sacramento opening respite centers ahead of drop in overnight temperatures - KTXL Fox40 - Dec. 9, 2021
'We're just trying to survive': Crews clear massive encampment at Sacramento's Commerce Circle - KCRA3 - Dec. 8, 2021
Is ‘right to housing’ a solution to California homelessness? - CalMatters, Gimme Shelter Podcast - Dec. 3, 2021
Darrell Steinberg thinks he can solve Sacramento's problems - California Sun Podcast - Dec. 2, 2021
Buttigieg’s popularity soars as local leaders jockey for $211 billion in infrastructure cash - Fox News - Dec. 1, 2021
