Sacramento, California

Sacramento (/ˌsækrəˈmɛnt/; Spanish: [sakɾaˈmento]) is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of government of Sacramento County. It is at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. Its estimated 2014 population of 485,199 made it the sixth-largest city in California. Sacramento is the cultural and economic core of the Sacramento metropolitan area, which includes seven counties with a 2010 population of 2,414,783. Its metropolitan area is the fourth largest in California after the Greater Los Angeles area, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the San Diego metropolitan area, and is the 27th largest in the United States. In 2002, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University conducted for TIME magazine named Sacramento "America's Most Diverse City".

Sacramento became a city through the efforts of the Swiss immigrant John Sutter, Sr., his son John Sutter, Jr., and James W. Marshall. Sacramento grew quickly thanks to the protection of Sutter's Fort, which was established by Sutter in 1839. During the California Gold Rush, Sacramento was a major distribution point, a commercial and agricultural center, and a terminus for wagon trains, stagecoaches, riverboats, the telegraph, the Pony Express, and the First Transcontinental Railroad.

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This Mental Health Awareness Month, Congress should unlock telehealth’s potential

Daily Breeze 05 May 2024
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and in 2024, there is a mental health crisis in this country ... As of 2021 suicide deaths are rising, with the largest increases seen among minority populations. Children and adolescents are especially struggling ... Opinion . ... Sacramento inches closer to implementing reparations ... Senate Bill 9 hits a legal road bump ... ....
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Pasadena Unified’s plan to use closed school campus for staff housing gets mixed reactions

San Gabriel Valley Tribune 01 May 2024
“We’re a charter city, and so there are complicated legal arguments around whether Sacramento can direct us to have, as of right, zoning and development for projects, even when they have very salutary benefits, like this one does,” he said....
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California housing developers win first ‘builders remedy’ battles in fight to bypass local zoning

The Mercury News 23 Apr 2024
... their legal expenses.” ... While the courts are just starting to sort out this legal tug-of-war, two proposed bills in Sacramento seek to clarify and rein in the builder’s remedy ... “Our legal position was substantially strengthened when (the La Cañada Flintridge) decision came down....
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Housing developers win first ‘builders remedy’ battles in fight to bypass local zoning

LA Daily News 22 Apr 2024
While the courts are just starting to sort out this legal tug-of-war, two proposed bills in Sacramento seek to clarify and rein in the builder’s remedy ... “Our legal position was substantially strengthened when (the La Cañada Flintridge) decision came down....
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