Twin Rivers, Natomas Teachers’ Strikes | Gas Tax Study Controversy | LabRats Hip Hop Opera
Teachers and parents lead a rally at North Natomas Regional Park on March 10, 2026. The rally marked the first day of Natomas teachers going on strike for better pay and smaller class sizes. Ruth Finch/CapRadio
Twin Rivers, Natomas Teachers’ Strikes
Teachers unions across California are going on strike in a coordinated effort from the California Teachers Association to call for increased salaries and benefits. Two of those districts are in the Sacramento region, impacting more than 40,000 students. CapRadio Newsroom Producer Greg Micek reports on teachers’ strikes and negotiations at Twin Rivers and Natomas Unified.
Gas Tax Study Controversy
The effort to find an alternative to the gas tax in California has received bipartisan support, especially from the state’s more rural areas, where roads are most in need of repair. But a recent bill to study all research related to the issue has received pushback from Republican lawmakers, both in California and across the country. Yue Stella Yu is a Politics and Campaign Reporter with CalMatters and she recently wrote about the new bill and reaction to it.
LabRats Hip Hop Opera
Who is Jef Costello? That enigmatic question is the name of a new musical written by Jacob Swedlow, the drummer of Sacramento’s experimental jazz band LabRats. We’ll talk with Swedlow and bandmate Joey Garcia about the origins of this hip hop opera that blends jazz, rap, dance, and film noir.
LabRats presents Who is Jef Costello at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, March 21 at Sac Dance Lab.