Today’s Headlines
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By
Bryan Goebel
8:49 AM PDT on August 5, 2010
- Meg Whitman Tells Interviewer She Will “Likely” Vote Against Prop 23 (SF Gate)
- No End in Sight to America’s Obesity Epidemic (NYT)
- Temporary Transbay Terminal to Open This Saturday (SF Examiner)
- City Insider Makes Fun of the City’s “Bureaucratic” EIR Process
- Developer Sues in Effort to Proceed with Alameda Point Project (SF Gate)
- Grist: Make Smart Growth Affordable Through Location-Efficient Mortgages
- L.A. Mayor Sets Date for Bike Summit (LAist)
- Innovative or Silly? A Bus Designed to Accommodate Cars in China (Huffington Post)
- Fresno Considers a Return of Streetcars (The Business Journal)
- Californian Named Senior U.S. DOT Accessible Transportation Advisor (The Fast Lane)
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Bryan Goebel is a reporter at KQED Public Radio in San Francisco. A veteran journalist and writer, he helped launch Streetsblog SF in 2009 and served as editor for three years. He lives car-free in the Castro District.
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