Today’s Headlines
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8:40 AM PST on November 9, 2017
- One of the first AHSC projects from cap-and-trade money—affordable housing for veteran in Long Beach—cuts a ribbon (Long Beach Post)
- Results of parking changes along Telegraph Ave complete streets project (City of Oakland)
- Long Beach road diet will increase parking, pedestrian safety (Long Beach Post)
- West Sacramento to test on-demand shuttles as transit supplement (Sacramento Business Journal, GovTech)
- Court: South Coast air quality board broke the law by kowtowing to oil industry (LA Times)
- CA joins EU climate push (New Europe)
- Brown blasts climate change deniers (Sacramento Bee, LA Times)
- Cap-and-trade reduced greenhouse gas emissions in California (LA Times)
- Can California eliminate gas cars? (Scientific American)
- San Diego Unified uses collection agency to harass parents who can’t pay for school bus (Voice of San Diego)
- Safety issue might delay rollout of new BART train cars (East Bay Times)
- But Muni could get new train cars soon (SF Examiner)
- Brainstorming on housing crisis:
- Thousands sign up for Bay Area discussions (East Bay Times)
- North Bay leaders get together to talk about housing (Press Democrat)
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