I enjoyed this interesting piece about the worst intersections in Los Angeles! Also noted that at the beginning of the piece -- which describes how land use and design choices lead to more traffic and crashes -- the story refers to collisions as "accidents." www.latimes.com/california/l...

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Have you always wanted to hear me yap about dangerous roads? You are in luck: I will be on a panel about telling crash stories at the @calbike.bsky.social Summit April 23: www.calbike.org/events/summit/

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

Wrote about Marysville Boulevard, where at least 11 people have died since Sacramento's Vision Zero pledge. Four men in just the last two years. The city is now fast-tracking a safety project. www.sacbee.com/news/local/t...

The way I look at this is whether or not the hype winds up bearing out—or even a fraction of it—we need to prepare for a long future in which bosses + management are incentivized at every level to proceed as if it's true; cutting labor costs, automating tasks, killing jobs.

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

"The county was self-insured, meaning it paid the settlements directly out of its own budget using taxpayer funds"

The settlement agreements were signed last year, regarding men who died in 2023.

A mutual friend clued me into Sacramento resident Bettina Redway's connection to the geopolitical maelstrom surrounding Greenland, and it was too fascinating to keep to myself. www.sacbee.com/news/article...

That outdoor seating should have been wearing brightly colored clothes

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

25 years of revitalization efforts, leads to a record-breaking salmon spawn in Putah Creek www.capradio.org/articles/202...

funny how the man who cost the Washington Post hundreds of thousands in subscriptions by canceling the paper's presidential endorsement—almost certainly the most destructive decision in the history of the paper, if not journalism itself—still has his job

We have hired a new transportation reporter and I am becoming an "investigative reporter"! I will keep covering dangerous roads though! I'm using exclamation points because I'm excited! www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

Wrote about the four crashes that left six people dead on our streets last month. Traffic deaths are preventable. These people should have made it home. www.sacbee.com/news/local/t...

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

In a fascinating union of two of my interests, it turns out that the technology that built the special effects of star wars (motion control) was invented by UC Berkeley to research how Marin residents would react to development proposals if they could see realistic video renderings.

This Navy veteran had finished law school and was planning to take the bar exam. But, his rep says, he never became a lawyer because he sustained a traumatic brain injury after Sacramento police shot him in the forehead with a projectile.

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

And these add to the ample evidence that cars receive special treatment when it comes to the societal perception of accountability. If you saw this headline: "Three people killed by chainsaw while walking in park" I believe you would have some questions.

We really should do something about these inanimate objects somehow moving about and killing people in public.

i am howling www.abridged.org/news/howard-...

Traffic crashes killed 206 New Yorkers in 2025, tied for the safest year since 1910. More than 200 deaths in a year is still far too many. The goal of Vision Zero is zero. Getting there will require redesigning streets, lowering speed limits, and daylighting every intersection.

ICYMI: The Sac Bee Guild is urging McClatchy to raise salaries and give our lowest paid reporters fair pay. Currently, eight of our local news reporters (who are predominantly BIPOC + women) are underpaid so much that they qualify for low income housing. We deserve better.

About 60% of The Sacramento Bee’s reporters and photojournalists are white. But if you look at the pool of local reporters whose wages are so low they qualify for low-income housing, the ratio is flipped: 63% are people of color. Management offered a deal that would leave most of them low-income.

The Sac Bee Guild has been negotiating with McClatchy for fair pay/higher salaries for months. Today, McClatchy countered with an offer that still leaves our lowest paid reporters (who are majority BIPOC and or women), struggling financially. We demand better.

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Please stand with us and share this far and wide. It’s so important. ✊

In bargaining with the Sacramento Bee guild today, McClatchy management proposed wage increases so pitiful that they would leave seven of our local journalists eligible for low-income housing.

Okay strongly endorse #1 being ~ drive slowly ~ :)

Vice principal was charged with having sex with a 17-year-old girl -- a student at his school. The case was filed in November 2024; he got promoted to a principal job in a different district the following summer. What a story.

If you need to *say* it, maybe take another look at the intersection design.

Quality performance art. Easy to parse, thematically relevant, kinda gross. Love it.

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What a PLEASURE to get to speak to Sacramento Claw operator Marie Raymond www.sacbee.com/news/local/a... and also what fun to watch her maneuver the Claw around Bee photojournalist @hectoramezcua.bsky.social as he lay down on the street to get a ground-level shot of her picking up a Christmas tree

🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

My friend is an electrician and I'm trying to convince them to name their company Ooh Girl Contact Me For Electric Deals, they don't like it :(

More and more people are saying it: We need a Caltrans for trains! "In California, we've really hollowed out our rail expertise," Blakespear said. "We don't have a Caltrans equivalent for rail, which would be great. www.kpbs.org/news/quality...

“Journalists have the right to do their jobs without fear of government interference,” said President Jon Schleuss. “Today’s FBI raid on a journalist’s home is a direct assault on the 1st Amendment and a threat to every working journalist. @postguild.bsky.social newsguild.org/the-newsguil...

The EPA is no longer going to consider how many potential lives a pollution regulation would save -- just the costs to industry. This is directly counter to EPA's mission. And it will kill Americans. Great (depressing) scoop from @maxinejoselow.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

Help, my jaw is on the floor and I can't pick it up! www.sacbee.com/news/politic... via @nicolenixon.bsky.social + @katewolffe.bsky.social

It may be because I'm on edge due to all the ongoing horrors in the world, but this @sfchronicle.com story about a group of neighbors who transformed a neglected industrial strip into a beautiful public park moved me to tears.

Yesterday I attended a sad but moving event honoring the 32 Sacramento community members who lost their lives due to vehicular violence. Each of the cones represents one person who lost their life last year (1/x) @sacbee.com @arianelange.bsky.social www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

It made me feel deeply sad to cover another Sacramento traffic deaths vigil. We have collectively accepted so much loss by writing off fatal car crashes as tragic "accidents." We don't have to accept any of it: These deaths are preventable. Unacceptable, even. www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

I've received many messages about this over the last two weeks — people still read, reference, and link to these stories WRITTEN BY REAL REPORTERS who knew their cities better than anyone else. I figured a fix might have been delayed due to holiday breaks but this needs to be remedied immediately!

TIL Japan built the bullet train before California built the 5 freeway. The best time to build a high speed rail line was 20 years ago, the second best time to build one is today.