Today’s Headlines
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8:32 AM PDT on June 21, 2022
- Climate change is not slowing (IPCC)
- Governor Newsom appoints Tony Tavares, District 7 (SoCal) Director, to head Caltrans (California Globe)
- San Jose is a crucial transportation hub for the entire state (Mercury News)
- What needs considering rules for automated buses? Comments open until August 1 (Smart Cities Dive)
- Two-way protected bikeway coming to Pasadena’s Union Street (Pasadena Now)
- How restorative justice heals a school community (and should be used everywhere) (EdSource)
- Racial equity work at the California State Transportation Agency (Strategic Growth Council)
- Republicans reach out via twitter to beg Gov Newsom for relief from 3-cent “gas tax hike” (Twitter)
- CA Dems vow to investigate cause of high gas prices, again (Spectrum)
- New affordable housing is expensive (LA Times)
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