Today’s Headlines

8:20 AM PST on November 4, 2020

Racial justice and the election (Capitol Weekly)
Construction on new freeway in Sacramento County could begin soon (Business Journals)
- And on SR 56 in San Benito (San Benito)
Private companies can sell electricity to fuel trucks (TT News)
Vallejo tries a more humane approach to kicking homeless out of marsh area (Daily Republic)
Reservations required for holiday travel on Amtrak this year (Bay Area Metro)
The Brown Act - requiring public meetings to be open, accessible - needs an update (CalMatters)
In the Inland Empire, people seem generally amenable to raising taxes on other people (Daily Bulletin)
Investors buying up Bay Area office real estate (Mercury News)

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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