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Sacramento State President Luke Wood speaks at the annual fall address in the campus’ University Union Ballroom on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026. Sac State received $150 million for a new engineering building in Sacramento, promising inclusive site selection and design after years of campus need.<\/p>\n
ZIYU JULIAN ZHU<\/p>\n
julian.zhu@sacbee.com<\/p>\n
Sac State\u2019s good news<\/p>\n
\u201cLuke Wood pledges a new engineering building for Sac State. Hype or substance? | Opinion<\/a>,\u201d (sacbee.com<\/a>, Aug. 27)<\/p>\n The need for a new engineering building at Sac State has been a known priority for many years. President Luke Wood announced the exciting news that the university received $150 million funding for this, and he identified an inclusive process for site selection and building design.<\/p>\n Obtaining this money is good news, despite this article\u2019s characterization that the announcement was hype.<\/p>\n Stanley Stewart<\/p>\n Sacramento<\/p>\n Expansion, not cuts<\/p>\n \u201cCalifornia\u2019s outdated rooftop solar subsidies harm communities of color | Opinion<\/a>,\u201d (sacbee.com<\/a>, Aug. 25)<\/p>\n Solar credits have already been cut by 75%, yet utility wildfire costs and shareholder profits rise. All bill costs deserve the same scrutiny \u2014 not just solar. If the goal is protecting renters and low-income families, the solution isn\u2019t further gutting clean energy incentives, but expanding access to these communities.<\/p>\n Jenny Folkesson<\/p>\n Executive Director, SolarWAVE Action<\/p>\n What NEM actually looks like<\/p>\n \u201cCalifornia\u2019s outdated rooftop solar subsidies harm communities of color | Opinion<\/a>,\u201d (sacbee.com<\/a>, Aug. 25)<\/p>\n I am a rooftop solar owner and customer of PG&E, which did not provide any capital that financed the installation of my solar array. I arranged for 100% of the financing.<\/p>\n I am a Net Energy Metering (version 2) customer, which allows me to sell any excess power that we generate to PG&E, at their discounted wholesale rate. My excess energy goes into the \u201cgrid\u201d and PG&E sells it to my neighbor at their time-of-use metered rate. PG&E is the beneficiary of my subsidy.<\/p>\n Three times a year, I have to finance the cleaning of the array, and I have replaced one inverter. I financed those costs, and PG&E continued to be the beneficiary of my subsidy.<\/p>\n Greg Sparks<\/p>\n Davis<\/p>\n Not an answer machine<\/p>\n \u201cAre students allowed to use AI on classwork? Here\u2019s how Sacramento educators monitor use<\/a>,\u201d (sacbee.com<\/a>, Sept. 18, 2023)<\/p>\n Sacramento City Unified\u2019s rule against the unapproved use of artificial intelligence for assignments and research is a reasonable starting point, but schools shouldn\u2019t treat AI only as a cheating problem. Students also need to learn how to use it without outsourcing critical thinking skills.<\/p>\n As a student, I think schools should teach students to attempt work first, ask AI for targeted support, verify facts and explain their work in their own words. Clear, assignment-level expectations can make AI a learning tool instead of an answer machine.<\/p>\n Keerat Singh<\/p>\n Sacramento<\/p>\n Understanding mental illness<\/p>\n \u201cLindsay Clancy killed her kids. Why are women defending her? | Opinion<\/a>,\u201d (sacbee.com<\/a>, Aug. 24)<\/p>\n Lindsay Clancy has and will continue to experience incredible grief at the loss of her children. Putting her in jail will not bring them back to life.<\/p>\n Diane Wolfe, M.D.<\/p>\n Carmichael<\/p>\n Related Stories from Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento State President Luke Wood speaks at the annual fall address in the campus’ University Union Ballroom on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-455411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455411","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=455411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}