Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks

They said their final goodbyes in the cemetery parking lot.

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But despite recent efforts in the tiny Delta town to move past decades of fiscal mismanagement, a review of city documents reveals a familiar pattern that raises questions about Isleton’s ability to govern itself and its roughly $1.7 million annual budget.

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Sacramento’s top health official says testing for the coronavirus in the region is so far behind where it should be that the actual number of people infected with the virus here could be 20 to 100 times higher than what’s been reported.

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Looking over the scorched-earth plot of land along Neal Road in south Paradise where his mobile home was just two weeks ago, William Hammond wonders whether he will rebuild. Again.

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After a federal appeals court ruling, cities cannot punish people for camping in public if they have no other options. But arrests, camp clearings and citations for other behaviors that lawyers and advocates say unfairly target the homeless have skyrocketed.

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As part of the Black Child Legacy Campaign, last July, seven neighborhood centers began receiving $120,000 annually over the next three years through a county-funded steering committee.

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Several experts have identified potential concerns about the devices, saying the air cleaners that Sacramento City schools purchased are overpriced, inefficient and have unnecessary and unproven technology.

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Among the 5,570 estimated homeless people in Sacramento County are veterans, teens and families. Some are mentally ill or struggle with addiction. Almost half are people of color, with black and American Indian people. The vast majority are born or from the Sacramento region.

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The first complaint hit the inboxes of Davis city officials on May 15. The wife of a former mayor was upset. The title of the message: “New zip line in Arroyo a complete aural headache.”

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“Back in the ‘90s when e-books were coming, people thought, ‘Well, libraries aren’t going to stay in business anymore because no one is going to want to come in and check out a book,’” said Lisa Dale, the library’s public services manager. “But they still are in 2019.”

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Davis real estate agents who once never sold properties in the blue-collar town now see a steady stream of sales every year.

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For those who live and vacation in the Lake Tahoe region, living with wildlife out their backdoor is as much of a draw as the lake’s glassy blue waters and snow-capped mountains. And when it comes to bears, some passionately argue that close encounters with the black bears are just the price of living here.

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What does equity look like in Sacramento? What comes to mind when you hear Sacramento is one of the most diverse cities in America? What keeps you up at night?

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For the last five years, Sacramento County has spent more than $2.3 million on the empty facilities of the Boys Ranch, the shuttered campus housing long-term treatment programs for troubled youths near Rancho Murieta.

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No Regional Transit bus has used the dedicated bus lanes on Watt Avenue for months, after the agency cut the only route using that stretch of road during a network redesign.

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From New York City to Los Angeles, Houston to Honolulu, industry leaders and scions of Silicon Valley have spent many thousands of dollars renting out dozens of theaters for special screenings of “Crazy Rich Asians” to turn it into a bona fide cultural phenomenon.

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President Trump’s confrontation with China is beginning to ripple through American academic and research institutions, as a crackdown on visas for certain Chinese citizens has left the higher education community wondering how it will adapt to the administration’s effort to stop intellectual property theft and slow China’s push for technological supremacy.

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The Sacramento Bee

• California man had a destructive bear killed. Then his Tahoe neighbors went on the attack

• Sacramento County has spent $2.3 million on vacant ranch near Rancho Murieta since 2015

• Sacramento County paid $1.5 million to build a bus-only lane. Now, no bus uses it

The Daily Californian

• 19 campus employees violated UC sexual harassment policies in past seven years

• Survivors reflect on the destruction and legacy of the Oakland-Berkeley Hills fire 25 years ago

• A slice of the truth: Does Sliver Pizzeria actually donate to anti-human trafficking nonprofits?

• Employee alleges UC Berkeley administrators failed to adequately respond to sex harassment complaints

• Do androids dream of Berkeley? The electrifying city of Philip K. Dick’s youth

• First sales of recreational marijuana in Berkeley usher in ‘whole new era’

National Public Radio

• Helping Transgender People Find Their Voice

• How Can We Stop Sexual Assault At Music Festivals? One Group Says, Start By Educating

• 1 In 10 Cal State Students Is Homeless, Study Finds