{"id":305699,"date":"2026-05-08T08:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305699\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:38:26","slug":"budget-crisis-monkey-fights-and-more-sacramentos-top-stories-for-5-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305699\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget crisis, monkey fights and more: Sacramento\u2019s top stories for 5\/7"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sacramento<\/a><\/p>\n

Edited by Samantha Sullivan. Story produced with AI assistance.<\/p>\n

Thu, May 7, 2026 at 11:30 PM UTC\"\"<\/p>\n

Three rhesus macaques hang out in their enclosure at the primate research center at UC Davis on July 26, 2016.<\/p>\n

(Randy Pench\/Sacramento Bee file)<\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee on May 7, 2026, covered major developments across local government, business and public safety, including the city of Sacramento\u2019s budget crisis and a look at how remote work has affected California\u2019s job market.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a quick digest of the day\u2019s top stories.<\/p>\n

Sacramento Councilmember Phil Pluckebaum floated cutting the city\u2019s entire homeless agency<\/a> during a Tuesday council meeting as the city grapples with a $66.2 million budget shortfall. Pluckebaum later walked back the idea, calling it \u201cheartless,\u201d but said restructuring the $41.5 million Department of Community Response is still needed.<\/p>\n

California is missing roughly 200,000 jobs because of remote work trends<\/a> tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, the nonpartisan Legislative Analysts Office found. Employment in remote-heavy sectors grew 16% nationally from 2019 to 2024 but only 7% in California.<\/p>\n

A USDA inspection of UC Davis\u2019 California National Primate Research Center revealed that monkey fights potentially had been caused by human error<\/a>, including one incident in which a monkey required amputations after a welding failure let another monkey escape. The facility was also cited for keeping two monkeys in an enclosure smaller than federal regulations require.<\/p>\n

Ten Sacramento-area hospitals earned \u201cA\u201d grades in the Leapfrog Group\u2019s 2026 hospital safety report<\/a>, One hospital received a \u201cC,\u201d and eight hospitals received \u201cB\u201d grades, including two that previously held \u201cA\u201d ratings. Our story also delves into how the rankings have become controversial.<\/p>\n

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson said the search at convicted killer Paul Flores\u2019 Arroyo Grande home could last days as investigators \u201coverturn every rock\u201d<\/a> related to the Kristin Smart case. Parkinson said advances in ground-penetrating radar and other technology over the past 25 years prompted this most recent search for Smart\u2019s remains.<\/p>\n

This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence based on our own originally reported, written and published content. Before publishing, journalists reviewed this content in compliance with McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edited by Samantha Sullivan. Story produced with AI assistance. Thu, May 7, 2026 at 11:30 PM UTC Three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[94730,7,128698,128699,1071,48861,1492,121,2006,123,122],"class_list":["post-305699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-budget-crisis","tag-california","tag-department-of-community-response","tag-ian-parkinson","tag-local-government","tag-pluckebaum","tag-public-safety","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-bee","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}