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Today’s Headlines

8:05 AM PST on December 23, 2020

    • Newsom's picks make history: Padilla for Senator, Weber for Secretary of State (CalMatters)
    • What the federal relief package means for California (CalMatters)
    • Hospitals workers beg people to stay home, not gather for Christmas (Sacramento Bee)
    • Project could change rail service in East Bay, eliminate two stations (East Bay Times)
    • It's time for pollution-free fuels and vehicles (NRDC)
    • Bike-share comes to downtown Santa Barbara (Edhat)
    • S.F. Bay Trail keeps growing, segment by segment (SF Chronicle)
    • People are finally listening to environmental concerns on cap-and-trade (PEW)
    • Mary Nichols' legacy: cleaner air and bitter controversy (CalMatters)
    • California Planning and Development Report briefs: Trump gets narrow definition of "habitat" in under the wire

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry
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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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