Worth reading every line of this heartbreaking, enraging piece that tells the story of just one of the 4000 people killed by cars every year in CA & the effect of his death on his family. The driver, who ran a red light, got off with a little probation & got to keep her license. Shameful

Ariane Lange at the Sac Bee and Jose Fermoso at Oaklandside are the only reporters in California (or anywhere, as far as I'm aware) who are actually covering traffic violence as the public health and social crisis that it is. bsky.app/profile/aria...

"On paper, policymakers make lofty commitments to public transportation and road safety, placing the utmost value on human life. In practice, human life is not as important as the convenience of drivers — a policy choice that endangers every person in California." www.modbee.com/news/califor...

Okay it's not the point but I love that at the end of this video of Dana Williamson no-commenting her way from the courthouse to the car waiting at the curb you can hear someone shouting "GET OUT OF THE BIKE LANE. F*CKING GET OUT OF THE BIKE LANE." www.tiktok.com/@sacramentob...

I wrote about public transit demand, vehicular homicide, dangerous roads and the lack of urgency around responding to any of them. It's also a story about a pedestrian who died in a crash—Drew Pringle, 21—and the staggering grief borne by his sister Erika. www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

How do we get back to thots doing drugs in a cave

New: The family of a man who died after he was found unresponsive in the jail has filed a lawsuit. He died in August of a drug-related cause. The Sheriff's Office did not announce it to the public. With @emmahall.bsky.social www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

The @pghguild.com strike paper's top story: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit orders the PG to restore the striking journalists' contract, including its health care plan, and bargain a new one, and strikers are looking forward to returning to work: www.unionprogress.com/2025/11/10/t...

When I inquired about a Caltrans robot dog that reportedly caught a human thief, I assumed I'd be working on a complex project about a person yanked into the criminal justice system by "AI," and the implications for humanity. Humbled to report that was not the case. www.sacbee.com/news/local/t...

"The Nevada County District Attorney’s Office has, in at least three criminal cases in recent weeks, filed briefing citing to fabricated (legal) authority"! www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

What a sweet-looking family! This is heartbreaking.

Union statement and Conde statement

I appreciate Thien Ho saying that this rapist and murderer gave the impression of "a sloppy grandpa or an alcoholic uncle whom you avoided at all costs during Thanksgiving dinner.” www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

tired: leaders throw folks under the bus wired: leaders invite folks on the bus in a dedicated lane

I believe this is the first time I have seen "Good luck, losers" in a subhed in The Sacramento Bee

The 61st death in my spreadsheet since Jan. 1, 2024. Less than two years of tracking Sacramento traffic deaths.

Two pedestrians struck—one killed, one severely injured—in Arden Arcade. The intersection is right near my old apartment, and I know it well. It's a scary place to walk. Fulton is wide and straight, and drivers treat it like a freeway. Many tear through at 50+ mph. www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

!!!!! pagesix.com/2025/11/03/e...

New: Sacramento County paid consulting firm $75K for homeless meeting, prep www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

Great coverage from @emorwee.bsky.social of the first entire unit to be let go at CBS News under new management: the climate team 🙃 heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

Illinois will effectively eliminate parking minimum requirements in ~all of Chicago and much of its suburbs thanks to the transit funding bill that passed last night.

Read about this and the other outrageous ways the California DMV enables deadly driving in the excellent @calmatters.org License to Kill series. calmatters.org/investigatio...

California has some of the most lenient drunk driving laws in the nation. You can still get a license after receiving 6(!!) DUIs!

The burning of fossil fuels reached a new record last year. "Avoiding every fraction of a degree of warming is critically important." @williamripple.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social @petergleick.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/... @coveringclimatenow.org @sejorg.bsky.social

Watching the California vehicle weight task force meeting. The task force is considering how the state might try to rein in dangerously large vehicles that cause a disproportionate amount of death on our roadways

Not quite explicit in this story: This tree is in JAIL because she is a WOMAN. www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

Wow, a lot of taxpayer money is going toward this one man!

first BART, now the Tilden Park steam train??? when will this assault on rail end!

We’ve updated our story with an additional comment provided by the United States Justice Department.

Nothing warms my heart as much as seeing someone doing this. The world is *full* of people doubling down on shit they don’t even believe out of a sense of pride, and seeing someone graciously acknowledge being wrong, in full public view, is quite inspiring.

A 1979 Sacramento Bee editorial about public transit begins by saying "A desire named streetcar is growing," & u know what, lol

I'm sad to read about the death of a pedestrian this morning. She was fatally struck on N 16th & N C Streets. By coincidence, I nervously rode my bike across 16th at B Street Saturday night. Traffic on 16th is fast-moving, lighting is dim, & it's a wide one-way street. www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

I'm sad to read about this pedestrian death on Highway 99. Reminds me of a recent interview during which a guy told me that as a tween in the early '60s he rode his BICYCLE all the way to STOCKTON on 99. Wild to contemplate now. www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

Lotta vivid moments in this story, the one that stands out to me when someone calls an oncologist "a pharma whore" to her face www.npr.org/sections/sho...

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

Thanks in large part to Safe Routes to School (a program created in Marin before it was rolled out nationwide), Marin County sees 3x the rate of kids walking or rolling to school. Over the past 15 years we've gone from 1 in 4 kids to 1 in 3 kids. This compares to 1 in 9(!) nationally.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Okay this is a good headline

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use: www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

The sinking highway project marches forward: www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

CA governor candidates saying things like “We need a leader who will...answer simple questions” & "I welcome the hard questions—the next governor must be accessible and transparent” are they seeking the popular vote or the REPORTER vote omg www.sacbee.com/news/politic... via @nicolenixon.bsky.social

Absolutely molten-hot language here from Professor Fraser Shilling, Director of the Road Ecology Center at UC Davis, on the decision to spend *half a billion* to widen Highway 37, which is sinking into the bay.

The entire proposed Highway 37 Solano-Marin super bridge is estimated to cost $11 billion, all to replace an existing road between a couple of suburbs. And it's proposed at 114 feet wide. For comparison, the Golden Gate Bridge is 90 feet wide.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

New investigation from me into the new Republican Leader of the CA Assembly, Heath Flora. I dug into Flora's voluminous campaign finance records and drove down to his legal address to see who lives there (not him!) Read more here (gift article): www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

A helicopter crashed onto the freeway in Sacramento last night; 3 people were critically injured. Wall-to-wall news coverage as two federal agencies investigate what went wrong and prepare to correct any systemic problems. A real contrast with fatal car crashes, which are accepted as routine.

When the former head of CapRadio discussed how to give a $1M furniture contract to the chair of the station's finance committee, he acknowledged in an email, “optics are not good." Gotta give the guy some credit for self-awareness there. www.sacbee.com/news/local/a... via @ishanidesai.bsky.social

It was INCREDIBLY annoying, as someone who did not have a car for several years in Los Angeles, to repeatedly hear that "no one takes public transit in L.A." But I think this cognitive dissonance actually stems from who, in privileged circles, is recognized as "someone."