News across Sacramento County
UMass to open conference play with cross-country trip to Sacramento State
The Massachusetts football team’s first Mid-American Conference game of the year will take the Minutemen (3-0) roughly 3,000 miles from home, marking the program’s longest trip since visiting Hawaii in 2016. Amidst the team’s first 3-0 start to a season since 2007, UMass will…
Elk Grove News
Published September 23Guest Commentary: Out-of-State Mailers Amplify Mai Vang’s Misrepresentations
Guest contribution by Mr. Bill Wong
Elk Grove News
Published September 23Marist Poll on New Ideas Adds Context to Matsui–Vang Race
Reliable polling in the Matsui-Vang contest is scant
Elk Grove News
Published September 23A review of EGN's Kirk Thomson videos
Will Thomson continue campaigning or fade away?
Elk Grove News
Published September 22Sacramento Bee endorses Mai Vang over Doris Matsui again in CA-07 race
Its diminished reach may still matter in an expected close race
Elk Grove News
Published September 22Vang Mailer - Matsui is 'The Face of DC Corruption'
UPDATED Sept. 23, 8 a.m. Vang's mailer appears to target Democratic and no-party-preference voters
Elk Grove News
Published September 20CalPERS CEO Gets a $1.15 Million Bonus — Maybe Someone Should Have Just Bought the S&P 500
investing in an S&P 500 index fund requires so little intellectual exertion that even the dumbest elected official could probably manage it
Elk Grove News
Published September 20Rural Roots Sunday - What Mornings Look Like Out Here
Most mornings start the same way. Feed buckets, water troughs, and ninety plus animals that do not care if you slept well or if you had a rough day at work
Elk Grove News
Published September 19Elk Grove News Minute Podcast - Something Smells Rotten in The Grove!
A woman named Helga has been sniffing around town, and she’s picked up the unmistakable aroma of something rotten.
Folsom Times
Published September 15On The Road: Ford Explorer remains a prominent SUV
This is one of the original trailblazers that helped propel sport utility vehicles as major players in the automobile world. In the early 1990s, Americans became enamored with the new rough-and-tumble SUVs. And none was more popular than the Ford Explorer. Ford sold 159,626 in…
Folsom Times
Published September 15Pat Quan; The Weather Lie
There’s a weather lie we tell ourselves every September: Summer is over. Except around Folsom and El Dorado Hills, the thermometer doesn’t seem to know that. Technically, summer doesn’t officially end until around September 22. And around here, September can deliver some of the…
Folsom Times
Published September 15Preseason action has introduced the Simmons factor
Ben Simmons has stolen the preseason show thus far and understandably so. 2018 Rookie of the Year in the NBA and a three-time All-Star, brings with it a lot of optimism and certainly fan excitement. After sitting out the entirety of the 2025-2026 season recovering from back…