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By Natalie Jones Pension retirement plans once cushioned lower-income workers by pooling risk and requiring payments into a retirement plan. Today, both low-income and middle-income workers have a significant chance of retiring in poverty.

Brian Warth was behind the wheel in a drive-by shooting in 1992. At 16 years old, he was tried as an adult and spent 16 years in prison. He made the most of his life on the inside, taking college and trade classes and spending 10 years as a prison past...

By Callie Shanafelt Californians have less access to employer-sponsored retirement benefits than the rest of the nation. If something isn’t done to address retirement insecurity in California, a significant number of today’s workers are at risk ...

Elk Grove's Million Dollar Mile We have all heard the saying that goes something like this - either pay now or pay later. The Elk Grove City Council will be faced with the ramifications of that statement Wednesday night when they consider a $1.5 milli...

Anyone who is YouTube savvy has probably seen or heard one variation or another of the popular “Shit ___ Says” series; i.e., “Shit Guys Say”, “Shit Black Girls Say”, etc.  Now, local filmmaker Tyler Adams has adde...

Last Friday night, my husband took my daughter to the Father-Daughter dance for Girl Scouts.

For former FBI agent Jeffrey Rinek, the argument to bring serial killer Wesley Shermantine off of death row to look for his victim’s bodies has to be done, if only to end the suffering of their families.

Back when I was young, the offbeat female love interest was expressed in a song: "I love the flower girl/Is she reality/Or just a dream to me?" The flower girl has morphed, becoming the Manic Pixie Dream Girl of the movies.  It's roughly the same thing, but we don't have imagine how she looks...

I have been struggling these past few weeks. I was supposed to go back to work in early December, but the c-diff infection made that impossible. Since then, I've been doing my best to get well. I've gained some weight, started feeling better, moving ...

We’re off on a father-and-son outing to the Capitol in Sacramento to “Save the Yuba State Park.” We’ve enjoyed our trips together to the Capitol before, walking around the grounds, grabbing lunch or dinner, visiting the railroad museum or the Bee newsroom — once with our dog in tow. It’s a good opportunity to...