Traffic safety advocates say the growing number of people being killed in crashes on Sacramento streets is a public health crisis. On Tuesday, a committee of Sacramento city leaders unanimously approved declaring a state of emergency to help make immediate changes.

In his first Daily Show monologue in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s presidential election win, Jon Stewart grappled with the question of why things went so poorly for Democrats. He showed a montage of clips of news pundits arguing that Democrats lost because they had gone “too woke.” “I only have one problem with the ‘woke’ theory,” Stewart replied.

A proposal to declare a state of emergency to improve pedestrian and cyclist safety passed its first hurdle before a Sacramento committee Tuesday — less than a week after the city saw its 31st traffic death of 2024. The four members of the City Council ...