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Umai Hot Dogs Expands in Sacramento

Umai Hot Dogs, a hot dog chain specializing in extremely flavored hot dogs, is expanding throughout Sacramento. Two new locations are coming, including one replacing the Squeeze Inn burger location in midtown.

(Oct. 19, 2021) → Read the full Silicon Valley Business Journal report
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Weird City Coffee Created by Terminated Baristas

Weird City Coffee, Sacramento’s newest coffee shop, was born out of a desire to include everyone and let their voices be heard after its founder was fired from another coffee shop after asking for a raise.

(Oct. 18, 2021) → Read the full The Sacramento Bee report

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Image caption: Local cities and counties struggle to regulate the exploding short-term rental industry.
STATEWIDE EXPLAINER
Short-Term Losses
The short-term or ‘vacation’ rental industry spawns hundreds of horror stories and damages the housing market, but governments struggle with how to bring it under control.

Image caption: There are still 27 oil platforms off the California coastline.
STATEWIDE EXPLAINER
Offshore Oil Drilling in California Waters, Explained
Why is California still experiencing offshore oil spills half-a-century after the catastrophic Santa Barbara disaster? The answer is found in the state’s longtime, close relationship with the oil business.

Image caption: Cargo ship traffic has reached record levels at California’s ports in 2021.
STATEWIDE EXPLAINER
Link Between Port Traffic Jams and Oil Spill, Explained
Here’s why cargo ship traffic has been dangerously heavy at California’s ports in 2021, and how the backup may have caused a disaster.

Image caption: The state's economic recovery from the pandemic has been slower than expected.
STATEWIDE EXPLAINER
Why California Jobs Have Been Slow to Come Back, Explained
Extended unemployment benefits, the state's eviction moratorium and other COVID relief measures have ended. But people are still out of work and hurting in California as the recovery remains slow.

Image caption: Water is a human right under California law, but it doesn’t always work out that way.
STATEWIDE EXPLAINER
Agriculture and Water Shortages in the State’s Breadbasket, Explained
Residential wells are drying up in the state’s main agricultural region at the same time that agricultural businesses consume almost 90 percent of the water there.

Image caption: The state’s largest news industry trade group is now open to freelancers.
STATEWIDE NEWS & ANALYSIS
CNPA Now Admits Freelance Members
Three years after changing its name to reflect the contemporary news business environment, CNPA makes another change with the times, admitting freelance writers and content creators as members.

Image caption: Sacramento County’s water management system is a complicated melange of more than two dozen districts.
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Sacramento County’s Complex Water System, Explained
Sacramento County residents get their water from 27 different districts that fall into five separate categories. Here’s how it all works.

Image caption: California’s three-year-old legal cannabis industry is already struggling. Here’s why.
STATEWIDE EXPLAINER
The Crisis in California’s Legal Cannabis Industry, Explained
Cumbersome state bureaucracy and competition from their illegal counterparts has made life perilous for California’s nascent legal cannabis businesses.

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Image caption: Gov. Newsom has signed a new bill to fund rural broadband access.
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Rural Counties Welcome $6 Billion in State Broadband Money
After criticizing an earlier state proposal for bringing broadband to rural counties, the Rural County Representatives of California now applauds a new bill with $6 billion in funding.

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