Today’s Headlines
West Portal Muni Crash, Possible Driver Error (ABC) (Merc) (KCBS) (SF Gate) (SF Gate) BART Union Negotiations Continue This Week (SF Gate), Chron Editorial Has No Sympathy for Unions Sac Bee Questions Wisdom of Building High Speed Rail During Recession, CAHSR Blog Doesn’t Trinity Plaza Housing Deal Hits Snag, Tenderloin Housing Clinic, Developer Take Same … Continued
By
Matthew Roth
9:04 AM PDT on July 20, 2009
- West Portal Muni Crash, Possible Driver Error (ABC) (Merc) (KCBS) (SF Gate) (SF Gate)
- BART Union Negotiations Continue This Week (SF Gate), Chron Editorial Has No Sympathy for Unions
- Sac Bee Questions Wisdom of Building High Speed Rail During Recession, CAHSR Blog Doesn’t
- Trinity Plaza Housing Deal Hits Snag, Tenderloin Housing Clinic, Developer Take Same Side (SF Gate)
- “Green” Building in Marina With Large Solar Array Still Has Prominent Garage (SF Gate)
- Farm Worker Vanpools Touted for Emissions Reductions (Sac Bee)
- Personal Accounts of Cycling to Work in East Bay (UnEarthed) (CoCo Times)
- Sausalito Raises Parking Fines Today (Marin IJ)
- Meter Pole Figures Out How to Stay Warm (Mission Mission)
- California Traffic Deaths Down 14 Percent in 2008 (Sac Bee)
- Stim Money Not Going First to Economically Distressed Counties, As Promised (AP)
- Brookings Examines Road Funding Formula Bias Against Large States, Blue States (TNR)
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