Today’s Headlines

8:29 AM PDT on June 4, 2020

What does Big Oil have to say about protests, racial injustice? (Heated)
Defunding the police is good climate policy (The New Republic)
L.A. offers to cut a bit from its bloated police budget (LA Times)
Kneeling, unarmed protestor killed by police in Vallejo (SF Chronicle)
Pressure builds to end curfews (LA Times)
People are worried about the virus (PPIC)
State legislature offers alternative budget without Governor's deep cuts (SF Chronicle)
BART closed even far away stations during protests - why? (SF Chronicle)
Climate and anti-racism (NY Times)
We are building infrastructure for a climate that no longer exists (Vice)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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