Today’s Headlines

8:43 AM PST on December 11, 2020

User's guide to California COVID notification app (San Diego Union Tribune, SFist)
Pandemic is putting eviction crisis front and center (NRDC)
Congressional resolution proposed: U.S. should invest as much in public transit as we do in roads (Data for Progress)
One way or the other, fracking will be on the California political agenda (Bakersfield.com)
How to change the story oil companies are trying to sell: Drag them (Heated)
Trump administration rushes to approve sale of California oil leases (LA Times)
Wildlife officials deny housing on ecological preserve in San Diego County (San Diego Union Tribune)
Bookseller on a bike (The Guardian)
The racist roots of climate inequality in the U.S. (Scientific American)
E-scooters are part of a balanced transit diet (Curbed)
We are failing the people we rely on to grow and harvest our food (Sacramento Bee)

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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