Sacramento County hospitals are seeing the second-to-worst ER wait times in the state. Gov. Newsom streamlines the Sites Reservoir Project. New recipe cookbook celebrates Sacramento’s best restaurants.

Sacramento County ER Wait Times

Sacramento County has the second-worst emergency room wait times in California, averaging nearly an hour to get from an ambulance to a hospital bed. These delays are tying up first responders, and also putting patients’ health at risk. CapRadio’s Health Care Reporter Kate Wolffe joins Insight to shed more light on how these delays are affecting both medical workers and patients, and what steps are being taken to cut waiting times for critical care services.

Gov. Streamlines Sites Reservoir Project

Located just over an hour north of Sacramento, in Glenn and Colusa counties, the Sites Reservoir has long been eyed as a site for surface water storage. And now after roughly 70 years, the off-river storage basin west of the Sacramento Valley is being streamlined and moving forward. Jeffrey Mount, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California Water Policy Center, discusses what dent it will make in the water supply– and for whom– as well as the impact to the environment and native species that rely on the Sacramento River.

Cookbook Celebrates Sacramento Restaurants

We’ve had our fair share of conversations diving into the growing, and delicious, restaurant scene across the Capital Region. And now, there’s a cookbook rounding up some of the best dishes in our backyard. Sacramento Bee Food and Drink Reporter Benjy Egel discusses his new book “Sacramento Eats: Recipes from the Capital Region’s Favorite Restaurants” which collaborates with the best chefs across more than 60 local eateries.