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The cover story this week: Here, at the SN&R, we're celebrating 20 years of Ask Joey; the column by our much loved and wise advice columnist, Joey Garcia. Learn more about what makes Joey who she is from Joey herself.
Elsewhere in the issue: The operators behind the online classified portal, Backpage.com, have been arrested for conspiring to pimp, leaving sex workers and activists asking who these crackdowns protect now that sex workers cannot monitor potentially dangerous clients, Raheem F. Hosseini has the story; What is the South of 50 project and how will it impact Folsom residents if it is moved forward? Oh, and where is the money coming from exactly? Scott Thomas Anderson follows the money trail and reports. Elsewhere, Jeff vonKaenel sits down with the CEO of Regional Transit, Henry Li, and the Amalgamated Transit Union president, Ralph Niz, for an in-depth discussion on improved services, Measure B and parking around the new arena.
SN&R’s advice columnist celebrates 20 years with the paper—and shares the heartaches and lessons that led her here.

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Does online classified portal exploit sex workers, provide them with a needed tool—or both?

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Suburban council incumbents exhibit the influence of dark money campaign contributions.

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Regional Transit’s new CEO and the transit company’s union president talk improved services, Measure B and arena parking.

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Gesture begun by 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick reappears during unlikely moment.

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Victim says he was called gay slurs and punched after stepping in to defend homeless man.

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Too often advice columns are condescending and pedantic. We’re thankful that Ask Joey has always gone deeper.

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Readers debate Trump vs. Hillary and the potential danger of pesticides.

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A reader’s sister won’t stop trying to get revenge on an ex through constant lawsuits.

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His studio asks deeper questions about the transformations his morphing subjects undergo.

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With his new album, Los Angeles rapper Jason Chu brings an all-American voice to the forefront.

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SN&R reviews a new production from the Light Opera Theatre of Sacramento.

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SN&R previews Simple Gifts, a show from the Cashore Marionettes.

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Soak up the fall-ness of fall around town before stupid winter arrives.

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The Art Theater of Davis stages The Impromptu at Versailles .

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SN&R reviews a new production from the Sacramento Theatre Company.

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Sacramento’s biggest, most successful music festival returns to Discovery Park.

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Keith Donohue’s new novel mixes marionettes and magical realism.

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This new Sacramento guide is a primer on the city’s myriad charms.

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SN&R film critic Daniel Barnes’ take on this year’s Mill Valley Film Fest.

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Blue House rivals Oz Korean BBQ for the best all-you-can-eat Korean feast in town.

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Fluid Espresso Bar expands with Barrio, and Sacramento gets three new boba tea shops.

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Moonraker Brewing Co.’s citrus-forward Yojo series belies its IPA name.

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Mix up your dessert routine with Savory Fried Chicken’s halo-halo.

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Learn about traditional and evolving Armenian culture at the 69th annual Sacramento Armenian Food Festival.

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Don’t be fooled by the fresh-pressed apple juice masquerading as cider.

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The Sacramento City Council passed a resolution for the city to join the Meat Free Monday movement, which was started by Paul McCartney.

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With a new album and tour, the legendary band embraces history but rejects nostalgia.

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Dress in all black for a dark-wave tour that includes Detroit’s Ritual Howls.

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Catch Odd Future Records’ only non-hip-hop act (which happens to be from Sacramento).

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Rebel Radio combines driving bass lines and off-the-cuff percussion with steady guitar rhythms to create a gritty blend of punk and ska.

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Moody yet powerful quartet Garble has been touched by the gods of grunge and garage rock.

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Allyson Seconds and Anton Barbeau are back with new groovy pop record.

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Seattle indie-folkster Damien Jurado’s last three albums tell a tell of soul searching in a sci-fi setting.

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Dressy Bessy has been proudly wearing their love for ‘60s pop tunes on their sleeves for two decades now.

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Seasoned family band Eisley stops through town.

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Weather threatens Treasure Island Music Festival’s reputation with delayed sets, canceled artists and lots of mud.

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The latest Ben Affleck thrill is a slick presentation that reveals very little.

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An incredibly alive journey through poverty and hope on a road trip across America’s asshole.

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Apparently we really need to remind everybody that the Holocaust happened.

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There’s nothing glaringly wrong with Ixcanul , it’s just hard to get whipped up for stoicism.

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Kevin Hart is usually better in small doses, but there’s no denying that he’s pretty damn funny.

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This I Was a Teenage Iron Man wannabe is inept on every level.

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Since medical cannabis can’t be classified as organic, how do you find the good stuff?

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This article was published on 09.12.19

A protestor holds a sign outside the ballroom in San Francisco where Sen. Kamala Harris was speaking to the Democratic National Committee on Aug. 23.
Jamal Trulove was innocent, but he spent nearly seven years in prison.
The father of four was convicted in 2010 of murdering his friend, Seu Kuka, in the Sunnydale housing project in San Francisco. Kuka was shot nine times in his head and back shortly before 11 p.m. on July 23, 2007, and, despite a crowd around the body when police arrived, only one person said they saw the shooting, a neighbor who was unable to identify Trulove.
The appeals court ruling that overturned Trulove’s conviction found that the prosectuor had committed misconduct when she argued that the witness had risked her life and the lives of her family to testify. “This yarn was made out of whole cloth,” Justice P.J. Kline wrote.
Since his release in 2015, Trulove has won a $13.1 million settlement from the city of San Francisco and has been a vocal critic of the chief district attorney whose office brought the flimsy case against him to trial. Just after he was convicted of a murder he didn’t commit, she was elected attorney general of California. Then in 2016, she won election to the U.S. Senate.
Now, Kamala Harris is running for president of the United States, one of 10 Democrats who will share the debate stage again on Thursday.
“Kamala Harris talks about how she’s proud of her work as California AG but, never as head DA of San Francisco, where evidence of my framing by the SFPD was covered up by ’HER’ office just to get a conviction,” Trulove wrote on Twitter in August.
But in fact, Harris has made her experience as a prosecutor a key component of her presidential campaign. On Monday, she released what she called a “ comprehensive plan to overhaul the criminal justice system .”
Even her slogan—“For the people”—invokes the introduction of every prosecutor in a courtroom.
“I believe we must have the ability to prosecute the case against four more years of Donald Trump and it will take a prosecutor to do that,” Harris told the Democratic National Committee in San Francisco on Aug. 23. “And I’ll tell you, we’ve got a big long rap sheet to work with.”
Outside the grand ballroom where Harris gave her speech, a lone protester wandered the halls with a sign that read, “Kamala convicted innocent people in order to advance her career.”
Harris and her supporters say she worked to reform the criminal justice system from the inside as district attorney and attorney general while taking principled stances against the death penalty, targeting large complex criminal enterprises and going after big banks that hurt homeowners during the foreclosure crisis.
“She was one of the earliest leaders to fight human trafficking and invest in reentry,” Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said at Harris’s first presidential campaign rally in Oakland in January. “She was one of the earliest leaders on criminal justice reform. Back when it was still popular to be tough on crime, she was smart on crime.”
Criminal justice reform advocates, however, have pointed out that in her first race for district attorney, Harris unseated her boss, a former defense attorney who was actively working on reforms, by criticizing his conviction rate.
She took a stand early as DA by refusing to seek the death penalty for a man accused of killing a police officer, but as attorney general appealed a court ruling that the state’s death penalty was unconstitutional. Advocates for the rights of sex workers have said that she opposed a ballot measure to decriminalize prostitution and led the charge to prosecute Backpage, an online listing site that sex workers say was paramount to their safety.
After rising to the double digits in polls after the first Democratic debate on June 27, Harris faltered following the second debate on July 31, when she was challenged on her record as a prosecutor by U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii.
Gabbard claimed that Harris jailed people for minor marijuana offenses and fought to keep exonerating evidence for death row inmates from coming to light. “The people who have suffered under your reign as prosecutor, you owe them an apology,” Gabbard said.
Among the places where Harris is struggling to gain traction is her home state, where she has at times trailed former Vice President Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts in some public opinion surveys. Harris bolstered her campaign in California in August, bringing on seven new staffers. But she remains well behind Biden, Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders in national polls.
Joe Tuman, a professor of political communications at San Francisco State University, said that most Democratic voters primarily want a nominee who can beat Trump. But polls show that most top-tier Democratic candidates could win in a head-to-head match-up, so Harris needs to find a way to differentiate herself from the moderate Biden and the progressive Warren and Sanders.
Tuman said he believes that Trump fears Harris more than he does Biden, Warren or Sanders, pointing out that the president has yet to brand her with a nickname, such as “Sleepy Joe,” “Pocahontas” or “Crazy Bernie.”
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