Thursday’s Headlines

Why transit agencies are recovering at different rates; Sea level rise is pushing up soil contaminants we thought were gone; More

By Melanie Curry

7:57 AM PDT on June 22, 2023

Foothill transit bus

Why California transit agencies are recovering at such different rates (NY Times)
The poisonous legacy of James Watt, Interior Secretary under Ronald Reagan (LA Times)
Stories from people who remember towns before the highways tore them apart (AARP)
CA should stop investing retirement funds in fossil fuels (LA Times)
As sea level rises, it's pushing up all those soil contaminants we thought we had got rid of (SF Chronicle)
Newsom takes heat for letting inefficient, climate-harming gas-powered plants keep operating (Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee)
Study: Homeless are CA residents who ran into some kind of financial trouble (CalMatters, Mercury News)
Ojai council wants to remove councilmember who is homeless, therefore not living in the district she represents (CalMatters)
UC San Diego to break ground on large student housing village (San Diego Union Tribune)
Is Santa Clara soulless on purpose? (Common Edge)

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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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