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9:01 AM PDT on October 10, 2017

    • Oakland, San Diego try “safe haven” camps for growing homeless population
    • The story of Senator Beall's early encounter with homelessness (Mercury News)
    • Local businessman wants to start a trolley service in downtown Sacramento (Sacramento Bee)
    • SMART runs free emergency train service to help evacuees get out of fire areas (Marin Independent Journal)
    • How new CA law could kill old rule that slowed development (LA Times)
    • Reactions to EPA chief's repeal of clean air rules are swift (Mercury News)

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Melanie Curry
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Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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