Current Events, computers & cars - a marriage made in purgatory, the gap between student wages and educational costs gets Grand Canyonesque.

The Sacramento City Council sells out (not again?): a chat with Doug's neighbor Sidney Norris about the McVillage travesty, we award a Horses Ass of the Year Award for crap reporting and let Will Durst sound off about neighborhoods (not ours)

Voyager 1 has for sure left our solar system (they think... probably anyway) the definitive answer (maybe), Hollywood correspondent David Rosenbloom explains his novel approach to marketing Shakespeare's plays

Current Events, the legacy of LBJ, Will Durst on executing people

Interview: Ellen Cochrane on East Sac's issues, in particular the controversial development threatening a decent neighborhood, which happens to be the host's

Obits: Jim DiEugenio talks about John Judge and Mike Rupert, two investigative reporting legends, more sadness about killing animals

Current Events, eclipse review, plus Will Durst

Miscellaneous File: overuse of surgery, mammogram problems, the slothful FDA & its disgraceful inaction on antibiotic "growth factor" use and new sunscreens

Obits (brief): John Judge, Michael C. Rupert, courageous investigators, Robert Parry & Sy Hersch on the Syrian nerve gas ruse; pithy quotes

Current Events, Will Durst on the new climate news