Tuesday’s Headlines
Recaps and analysis from the legislative session, ballot measures, Global Warming, and more...
9:56 AM PDT on October 13, 2026
- CalBike Recaps the Legislative Session
- What Do the State’s New E-Bike Laws Actually Do? (CalMatters)
- Anti-RTM Newspapers in Bay Are Dumb (The Discourse Lounge)
- Global Warming, Erosion, Could Cause Rerouting of 101 in Southland (Union-Trib)
- Bass Finds “Middle Ground” Between Public Safety and Parking (LAist)
- Pacific Palisades/Malibu Brace for El Niño (Daily News)
- New Normal: Storms Getting Worse and Worse (LB Post)
- 100,000 Speeders (EastBayTimes)
- Federal BUILD America 250 Act Cuts Transit by 20%, Raises Road Construction by 8% (Transportation for America)
- Lowlights of Last Week’s ICE-Surge in the Central Valley via Fresno Bee: Mayor Confronts ICE Agent, Off-Duty Drunk Thug Is Shot, Fresno PD Declines to File Charges, Madera Festival Cancelled, Farm Bureau Silent While Unions Fume
Get national headlines at SBUSA, local headlines at SBLA and SBSF
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