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Everybody Is Doing Drag
8+ hour, 22+ min ago (1145+ words) You think you are not in drag. You think the suit is just a suit. The makeup is just makeup. The shave is just a shave. You think these are choices you make to express who you are. You are…...
Sacramento Region Sees Record Homeownership, but Affordability Gap Persists
8+ hour, 16+ min ago (809+ words) SACRAMENTO, Calif. " Homeownership in the Sacramento region has climbed to its highest level in nearly four decades, even as affordability challenges and longstanding disparities continue to limit access for many households. A recent analysis of 2024 American Community Survey data found…...
Passover redemption for Israel/Palestine
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (740+ words) Davis resident. Swims, Bicycles, Drives a Leaf. Plants Trees, Protects small children (from the sun), works to reduce his carbon footprint, Worries about his child's future (unidentified) life partner's quality of life and the education that person is receiving (aka…...
Meditations: Can we change the basic course of man?
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (779+ words) The day is mild, and the park is nearly empty. For the entire hour I sit beside the stream, a single swallowtail butterfly feeds on the nectar of the spiky white balls overhanging the water. The senses become fully attuned…...
Inside a Prison Gym, a Film Festival Rewrites the Story of Incarceration
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (399+ words) CHOWCHILLA, Calif. " For a few hours on a Saturday morning, the gymnasium at the Central California Women's Facility (CCWF) felt less like a prison and more like a film festival"filled with laughter, applause and a sense of possibility that…...
The Last Free Place
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (854+ words) Andrew Carnegie was afraid. He was one of the wealthiest men in human history. He owned steel mills, railroads, and the labor of hundreds of thousands of workers. He lived in a mansion on Fifth Avenue. He dined with presidents....
Why Defining ‘Female’ in Sports Is More Complex Than It Appears—and What That Means for the Transgender Athlete Debate
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (387+ words) As sports governing bodies move to reinstate genetic sex testing, new research suggests that determining who qualifies as "female" in athletics is far more complex than commonly understood, raising significant implications for policies governing transgender athletes. A recent analysis published…...
Op-ed | The Real Estate Industry Continues to Use the Ellis Act to Destroy Affordable Housing in California
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (609+ words) It's abused by corporate landlords and developers," says Larry Gross, executive director of Coalition for Economic Survival in Los Angeles, who destroy affordable housing and replace it with luxury housing." The Ellis Act applies to any California city that has…...
Revised Willowgrove Plan Expands Affordable Housing Commitments, Promises Early Delivery
1+ week, 7+ hour ago (1012+ words) The new draft, dated March 20, 2026 outlines a proposal in which 20 percent of the project's housing would be reserved for households with extremely low, very low and low incomes, with the total number of affordable units reaching 177 percent of what is…...
Vanguard Analysis: Without Two Peripheral Projects, Davis Cannot Meet Its Housing Requirements
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1179+ words) Davis will not meet its state-mandated housing requirements without large-scale peripheral projects like Village Farms and Willowgrove. The city's housing data shows that the remaining need, especially for lower-income housing, far exceeds what infill development or accessory units can realistically…...