Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:48 AM PDT on July 18, 2017
- CA cap-and-trade bills pass:
- Rare bipartisan effort (LA Times)
- Political fault lines exposed (SF Chronicle)
- Six ways Jerry Brown got the climate deal (Capitol Alert)
- Live blog: side deals and votes (Capital Public Radio)
- Meanwhile, three CA counties sue oil companies for contributing to, dismissing climate change (SFGate)
- “Virtual” bike trip shows what it’s like to bike to work in LA (LA Times)
- SF Mission neighborhood blocks bike-share (SF Examiner)
- That close call at SFO was a REALLY close call (East Bay Times)
- New York Times notices California’s housing crisis
- US Census is necessary; don’t cut it (NY Times)
- Hey, Honolulu: If you’re going to ban texting while walking, here’s some other petty laws you could pass while you’re at it (Mashable)
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