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Today’s Headlines

8:24 AM PDT on October 13, 2017

    • Will automation take away truck driver jobs? (Guardian)
    • Some Republicans hope to start a tax revolt with S.B. 1 repeal; others say hold on there (Cal Matters)
    • Can California provide enough charging stations for the electric cars it wants? (FutureStructure)
    • More on SANDAG reform bill just signed into law (Patch)
    • Proposed Bay Area bridge toll increase seen as a solution for regional transportation problems (SF Gate)
    • Ban on sidewalk delivery robots moves forward (SF Examiner)
    • Amid the devastation, the smoke from still-growing Northern California fires is also no joke (Marin Independent Journal)
    • Affordable housing development breaks ground in Emeryville (East Bay Times)
    • Housing subsidies help people who already have money (Apartment List)
    • Block that metaphor! There's nothing natural about “naturally affordable housing” (City Observatory)
    • What a Nobel economist can teach us about congestion pricing (Ethan Elkind)

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