Damien Newton
Legislation Would Allow Metro to Add Fee to Olympic/World Cup Tickets
“A.B. 1237 will provide sports fans participating in the World Cup, Olympic and Paralympic Games with an easy way to utilize transit when attending these sporting events, reduce traffic congestion, improve local air quality and provide critical support for local transit services"
Thursday’s Headlines
Safety wars in SoCal, Curb Paint Wars in the Bay, Affordable Housing in Sacramento and Trump!
Wednesday’s Headlines
Lots of local news and did that say Trump wants to defund the coastal commission?
New Legislation Would Ask Voters to Approve $20 Billion Bond for Transit and Active Transportation
Last week, newly-elected Assemblymember Nick Shultz introduced Assembly Bill 939, which would place a bond on the November 3, 2026 statewide ballot to fund sustainable transportation throughout California.
Can CA Go It Alone on High-Speed Rail?
New legislation is intended to explore that issue
Sen. Ben Allen Moves to Protect California’s Freshwater
Environmentalists throughout the country…no throughout the world…have discovered in recent years that it can no longer count on America’s federal government for help stewarding this world. Nowhere is that more true in the battle to protect clean, freshwater, especially in California.
Friday’s Headlines
That Duffy press conference in LA got a lot of attention, but LA officials were quiet because they need wildfire assistance that might not be coming.
Protestors Disrupt USDOT Secretary’s Attack on California High-Speed Rail
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced a federal investigation into California High-Speed Rail "waste, fraud, and abuse"