Today’s Headlines

8:18 AM PDT on June 29, 2021

Getting closer to a sort-of-final state budget (Sacramento Bee, EdSource)
CPUC releases plan for CA to produce zero-carbon energy, to replace natural gas and nuclear plants (Canary)
Infrastructure needs a focus on equity, sustainability (American Progress)
- Which means addressing barriers in transportation (American City and County)
Oakland police say they are the only bulwark against deadly shootings and shouldn't have their budget cut (SF Chronicle)
Democrats in legislature looked for evidence that high-speed rail lacks public support, and found something (SF Chronicle)

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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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