Today’s Headlines
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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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