Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:33 AM PDT on October 15, 2020
- Scrap-and-replace program helps low-income Californians get cleaner cars and e-bikes (Next City)
- Where to now, after 2020’s harrowing, universal ordeal? (National Geographic)
- AARP trains people to be part of a Livable Communities Corps
- How land trusts can keep housing affordable (CalMatters)
- Feds insert politics, deny funding to transit agencies and cities they brand “anarchist” (NACTO)
- COVID has been especially harmful for working women (Brookings)
- Tracing COVID misinformation (Nieman Lab)
- St. Paul sets citywide 20 mph speed limit (Twin Cities)
- Outdoor dining is no refuge from the dangers of cars (Planetizen)
- Strategies for driving down emissions (Transportation for America)
- Under Trump, “alarming” drop in prosecutions for violations of fundamental environmental laws (NY Times)
- LAPD causes serious injuries by shooting at … Lakers fans (LA Times)
- A Trump landslide? The media playing Cassandra? (McClatchy)
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