Today’s Headlines
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8:28 AM PST on January 7, 2022
- Oakland testing Universal Basic Mobility program, giving money directly to people for transit, bikeshare (City of Oakland)
- The US needs to do better for biking (Wired)
- Soon, car ads in France will be required to remind people driving a car is best avoided (Gizmodo)
- Emissions generated by four families in a week (Time)
- Buttigieg: Steering innovation toward the public good (TechCrunch)
- Pandemic is keeping hundreds of public safety, healthcare, transit workers and teachers away from work (AP)
- 200 affordable homes proposed near Fruitvale BART (Mercury News)
- Fire risk could stop proposed luxury housing development near Santa Rosa (SF Chronicle)
- Cupertino, nearby cities endorse ballot measure to overturn state housing laws (Mercury News)
- How CA and other states could transform U.S. trucking (Bloomberg)
- An explanation of the Gann Limit (cap on spending in CA) (CA Budget & Policy Center)
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