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8:53 AM PST on December 27, 2019

    • One of the oldest newspapers in CA - Martinez News-Gazette - puts out its final edition (SF Chronicle)
    • This was the decade of the bicycle. What's next? (TreeHugger)
    • Study finds e-bikes have higher, more severe injury rates than pedal bikes. But compared to cars? (Reuters)
    • Stockton's experiment with universal basic income shows promise (Courthouse News)
    • Saugus residents want a pedestrian bridge after driver kills a woman walking (The Signal)
    • Bad news on the climate prediction front (Forbes)
    • Trump's new sleazy, devious coal subsidy, explained (Vox)
    • Solar mandate, gas bans take effect in January (SF Chronicle)
    • New traffic laws take effect on Wednesday (Davis Enterprise)
    • Farmers, Congress learning that "conventional" farming techniques make it harder to bounce back from weather weirding events (Inside Climate News)
    • Solution for emissions: Electrify transportation, use renewable sources, reduce miles traveled, ensure access for all (Clean Energy)
Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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