Priya Raman teaches introductory journalism at a community college in Sacramento and covers county government the rest of the week. She reads planning commission agendas so other people do not have to. She grew up in the Central Valley and writes about it more than she planned to.
A grower with water and no crop can still have a business. That sentence would have made no sense to my grandparents and it describes a real part of Central Valley agriculture now.
A small second home in the back garden is one of the few kinds of housing an ordinary homeowner can add without being a developer. Whether you can actually build one depends on a…
I teach an introductory journalism course at a community college, at eight in the morning, which means I have spent several years watching people try to stay awake who had every…
The decision is made years before anyone digs anything, in documents almost nobody reads, and by the time there is a groundbreaking with a ribbon, every meaningful choice has…