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

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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