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Time for new Constitutional amendments? History says ‘yes’
Quick quiz: Last month marked the 30th anniversary of the most recent U.S. Constitutional amendment. What was it? Answer: The...

Jeff Burdick
Jun 9, 2022


How ‘voter apathy’ should inspire the news media
In the last week, a bit of digital ink was spilled about how registered voter turnout for California’s primaries this week would be far...

Jeff Burdick
Jun 9, 2022


Year-in-Review: Our 10 best political articles of 2021
Foremost, 2021 will be remembered as the second year of the Covid-19 Pandemic, but it was also an extremely busy year in politics –...

Jeff Burdick
Dec 15, 2021


A proud anniversary covering California politics
With this issue, the SactoPolitico.com marks its first full year of publishing. Coincidentally, that’s the paper anniversary, which is...

Jeff Burdick
Sep 9, 2021


Why we published: Great Debate Mystery stories
This the third time I’ve written a “Why we published” editorial in the Sacto Politico’s first year of existence. Each time, the occasion...

Jeff Burdick
Aug 30, 2021


Editorial: Why we published SEIU Local 1000 story
On June 10, The Sacto Politico published a fascinating and informative Q&A interview with in-coming SEIU Local 1000 President Richard...

Jeff Burdick
Jun 15, 2021


Sacramento’s riot of heated rhetoric included Sac Bee
Many thanks to the Sacramento News & Review (SNR) last week running most of my OpEd about inflammatory local rhetoric that blemished the...

Jeff Burdick
Jan 19, 2021


S/P OpEd follow-up: Campaign coffers for common good?
This story is part of Sacto Politico’s ongoing “Shame of Our Campaigns” series. Maine’s unsuccessful Senate candidate Sara Gideon made...

Jeff Burdick
Dec 15, 2020


Why we published Patterson scoops
This package exposes a surprising number of far-right connections by a major-party-endorsed candidate for Congress (Buzz Patterson, CA-7).

Jeff Burdick
Oct 9, 2020


Welcome to SactoPolitico.com
The inspiration for this site was to address the increasing lack of quality local political coverage that’s essential to democracy.

Jeff Burdick
Sep 15, 2020


Can Biden produce permanent campaign finance reform?
Even though Biden will have raised more than $1 billion, I can still see a scenario in which he takes up campaign finance in earnest.

Jeff Burdick
Sep 11, 2020
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