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Damien Newton

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State Legislation Would Reshape VTA Board

By Damien Newton | Mar 3, 2021 | No Comments
New legislation would shake up the VTA board. But would service actually improve?
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SBSF Interview : SPUR’S Nick Josefowitz on the First Steps for New Mega Measure

By Damien Newton | Feb 19, 2021 | No Comments
Josefowitz : We can’t expect to put a regional measure on the ballot of the scale that was contemplated with Faster without confronting some of the governance challenges we have now.
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LA Mayor Approves Extension of Roomkey, but Council Says “Go Bigger”

By Damien Newton | Feb 12, 2021 | No Comments
Bonin: "They say where there's a will there's a way; In this case, there has to be a way." Raman: "We need to be ambitious; I've heard the word 'hundreds' but we need be hearing 'thousands' [of new rooms to be added to Roomkey]."
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L.A. Mayor Garcetti to Bring “Hundreds” of Unhoused into Project Roomkey with New Federal Funds

By Damien Newton | Feb 4, 2021 | No Comments
What would you do if you had unlimited funds to run a program to provide housing to the unhoused during the pandemic?
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SGV Connect: Alhambra Mayor Sasha Renée Pérez, and a 2021 Preview

By Kristopher Fortin and Damien Newton | Jan 14, 2021 | No Comments
Welcome to the first SGV Connect Podcast of 2021. In this week's episode, Kris speaks with Alhambra Mayor Sasha Renée Pérez before Kris and Damien give a preview of what to look forward to in 2021.
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EOY Update: We Made Our Fundraising Goal. Thank You!

By Damien Newton | Jan 12, 2021 | No Comments
We couldn't do this without your support
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SGV Connect 75: Catching up with Pomona Mayor Tim Sandoval – and Goodbye to 2020

By Damien Newton and Kristopher Fortin | Dec 18, 2020 | No Comments
Pomona's mayor talks about his roles in Gold Line construction and SGValley Council of Governments. And pod hosts take a look ahead to 2021.
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Building a Better Regional Ballot Measure w/ Seamless Bay Area’s Ian Griffiths

By Damien Newton | Dec 17, 2020 | No Comments
As we prepare to bid goodbye to 2020, Streetsblog SF continues its interview series with local and national experts to lay the groundwork for the best possible transit mega-measure for 2022
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Change Is Possible, and Streetsblog Needs Your Help to Help Make Change Happen

By Damien Newton | Dec 11, 2020 | No Comments
Thank you to those who have donated! These are some of the changes you are helping bring to California.
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Donate Today to Keep Us Strong in 2021

By Damien Newton | Dec 1, 2020 | No Comments
This year’s Giving Tuesday is serving as the kickoff for our End of the Year fundraising drive for all the Streetsblog sites in California. Streetsblog California raises about half of its annual revenue through small donations from our readers. This year, we cancelled many of our fundraising events because of COVID 19, but are hoping […]
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Lessons from Measure RR for a 2022 Regional Ballot Measure

By Damien Newton | Nov 24, 2020 | No Comments
"So, the lessons from Measure RR are that public agency led vision and outreach, multiple stakeholders working together with a public owner and broad coalition working to get the measure passed are going to work best to get measures passed."
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SGV Connect 74 – Election Recap

By Damien Newton, Kristopher Fortin, Joe Linton and Melanie Curry | Nov 6, 2020 | No Comments
Everyone is talking about the results from this week's election, and SGV Connect is no different. Our usual team brought back Streetsblog LA editor Joe Linton and Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry for an in-depth election special that is almost twice the size of a regular episode.
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