Jun 28, 2023
Kara Haug’s big message to everyone she works with as a sexuality health educator and counselor is, “You are worth the awkward.”
The co-founder of Reframing Our Stories, an organization that provides sexual health education, resources and tools for families and communities to normalize conversations around sex and relationships, made a career of easing uncomfortable conversations.
“I became a sex educator because I don’t want people to hurt anymore,” Haug says. “The amount of shame that we hold around sexuality is immense. But we don’t need to hold onto it. It can be let go, and part of that is talking about it and learning how to be educated around it. When we do that, we’re healthier.”
Jun 28, 2023
Hate speech and the lack of decency at City Council meetings are a shock. How did we get here?
Here’s my story. When letters to my councilmember and mayor went unanswered, I attended council meetings, first virtually, then in person. At my first council meeting, I learned other attendees were there to vehemently campaign for their personal ideologies.
I learned there was no room for alternate opinions. Audience members who disagreed with my comments turned to social media to criticize and mock me. I saw uncivil behavior at council meetings, including shouting and heckling.
Jun 28, 2023
In 2020, after struggling five years to secure financing, Sacramento County finally converted the former Courtyard Inn Motel in North Highlands to homeless housing. Today two new motel conversion projects targeted by the Board of Supervisors are expected to proceed at warp speed.
What changed?
California’s Homekey program. It provides funds to local governments to convert non-residential structures into homeless housing, which didn’t exist before 2020.
County staff is optimistic about the state funding application. If successful, the money requires completion of the conversion work within 12 months.
Jun 28, 2023
Inside Pocket July 2023
Judy Lew Loose’s unique style is a pointillism technique in watercolors blending layers of dots to create soft, yet powerful colors. Her passion is to heal and connect with people through her art.
Jun 28, 2023
Inside East Sac July 2023
Chris Daubert (1950–2023) was an artist, teacher and curator who exhibited his drawings, paintings and large multimedia installations locally, nationally and internationally. He organized and curated more than 100 exhibitions in nonprofit, college and university art galleries.
