Today’s Headlines

8:46 AM PST on December 7, 2020

20,000 Californians dead. If you are able to, just stay home. (LA Times)
Mass transit faces huge cuts across the nation (NY Times)
- And proposed federal relief is not enough (CityLab)
Seamless integrated transit is complicated - and political (SF Examiner)
More about how tire pollution is killing salmon (Inverse)
Profiles of people who cannot pay rent (CalMatters)
Buying hotels for housing could be a long-term homelessness solution (PEW)
New CA legislative session begins today (Sacramento Bee, SF Chronicle)
"Luxury" housing development in San Diego offers land swap in exchange for building on environmental reserve (San Diego Union Tribune)
The fight over natural gas in homes (LA Times)
Biden nominates CA Attorney General Xavier Becerra to head Health and Human Services (NY Times)
Another automaker - Nissan - drops support for Trump administration's stance on emissions standards (KTLA)
- GM had already changed sides (The Hill)
Trump/Barr are in a hurry to execute people before they leave office (LA Times)

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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