Today’s Headlines
By Joe Linton | | No Comments- COVID: L.A. Hospitals Teeter On Last Resort Guidelines For Care (LAT)
- L.A. Homeless Services Could Be Spreading COVID (KNOCK.LA)
- Carnage: Fatal Fiery End To Pursuit In Van Nuys (Daily News)
…Inglewood Resident Killed In L.A. Car Crash (2 Urban Girls) - 44-Home Florence Firestone Project To House Formerly Unhouses Vets (Urbanize)
- 41-Story Apartment Tower Approved For Downtown L.A. (Urbanize)
- Commission Supports Westwood TOC Apartments Over Fix the City Appeal (Urbanize)
- L.A. River Revitalization Needs To Consider People And Water (LAT)
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Drivers Are Still Top Polluters, Even During Quarantine
By Kea Wilson | | No Comments
Not even months of quarantine orders that confined millions of Americans to their homes were enough to unseat passenger vehicle trips as the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, a new study finds.
Today’s Headlines
By Joe Linton | | No Comments- Overwhelming Situation As COVID Deaths Soar In L.A. County (LAT)
…COVID Deaths Among L.A. Latinos Alarming (LAT)
…Virus Rages Through LAPD (LAT) - Report: Sheriff Department Has Multiple Deputy Gangs (CBS2)
- After Pleading Guilty, Former Councilmember Englander Could Face Light Sentence (LAT, Daily News)
…John Lee – A Co-Conspirator On the City Council (L.A. Podcast Blog) - More Coverage Of New County River Plan (Urbanize)
- Carnage: Driver Kills One In Westwood (KTLA)
- Trump Launches Sneaky 11th-Hour Attacks on Clean Air, Medicaid, LGBTQ People (LAT)
- 2020 Ties 2016 As Warmest Year On Record (LAT)
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SGV Connect: Alhambra Mayor Sasha Renée Pérez, and a 2021 Preview
By Kristopher Fortin and Damien Newton | | 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.
Today’s Headlines
By Joe Linton | | No Comments- 288 L.A. County COVID Deaths (Daily News)
…National COVID Death Toll Worsening (Daily News)
…Northern California COVID Situation Improving, L.A. Not So Much (LAT)
…Children Apologize To Their Elders For Spreading Virus (LAT) - L.A. City Employees Delay Pay Raises To Stave Off Layoffs (LAT, Daily News)
- Carnage: Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Person Sleeping On Long Beach Sidewalk (LB Post)
- Metrolink Receives $14M Grant For San Bernardino Line Improvements In El Monte (SGV Tribune)
- 227-Micro-Apartment 0-Parking Building Proposed Near DTLA Pico Station (Urbanize)
- 7-Story 67-Apartment Complex Rising On La Brea In Mid-City (Urbanize)
- Newsom Has Failed On Climate (KNOCK.LA)
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This Week In Livable Streets
By Joe Linton | | No Comments
Streetsblog's Sahra Sulaiman on Newsrooms' Racial Reckoning, Transformative Justice, SGV millennial mayors, Inglewood people-mover, Ethan Elkind, L.A. City bus shelter and street furniture contract, COVID-19 briefings
End-of-Year Fundraising Drive Update: We Did It! Thanks!
By Damien Newton | | No Comments
If you feel like you missed out and want to make a donation, there’s no time like the present. Contribute today!
Champs-Élysées Makeover Inspires U.S. Advocates To Push for Better City Arterials
By Kea Wilson | | No Comments
As Parisians celebrate a new plan to pedestrianize the Champs-Élysées and cut car traffic in half, Americans street safety advocates demand redesigns for their own cities' dangerous downtown arteries.
Today’s Headlines
By Joe Linton | | No Comments- Report: COVID Job Losses Will Worsen Homelessness (LAT)
- COVID Hospitalizations Stable, Though Further Surge Anticipated (Daily Breeze)
- Climate Scientist Moms Urge Climate Action (LAT)
- Whittier Councilmember Fernando Dutra Elected To Metro Board (Whittier Daily News)
- Carnage: Cajon Pass Car Crash Kills One (Daily News)
- Police Seek Glass Truck Driver For South L.A. Hit-and-Run (Biking in L.A.)
- Inglewood Disbands Police Oversight Commission (2 Urban Girls)
- Contractor Tutor-Perini Critical Of CA High-Speed Rail Delays (LAT)
- 5-Story Affordable Mixed Use Nearing Completion In Florence-Firestone (Urbanize)
- 4-Story No Parking Affordable Housing Planned In San Pedro (Urbanize)
- 7-Story Mixed-Use Nearing Completion On Sunset In Hollywood (Urbanize)
- L.A. City Councilmember de Leon Introducing Motions For Homeless Housing (LAT)
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Senate Considering $10B for Highway Removal
By Kea Wilson | | No Comments
Cities might soon get the kind of federal money they need to tear down the downtown highways that federal dollars paid them to build — and to reinvest in communities of color that those highways destroyed.
Today’s Headlines
By Joe Linton | | No Comments- CA Passes 30,000 COVID Deaths (LAT)
…Health Director Ferrer Calls For Hard 3-Week Shutdown (LAT)
…Hospitalized Patients Are Dying Of COVID (LAT)
…Officials Hope COVID Is Plateauing (Daily News)
…Dodgers Stadium To Become Vaccination Site (LAT) - Glendora Bicycling Stakeholders – Take the City’s Survey (Patch)
- More On Frank Gehry Plans For L.A. River (LAT)
- 170 Freeway Bridge Demolition To Close Burbank Boulevard (Daily News)
- KNOCK.LA Explains the Brown Act
- CA Hotels For Unhoused Project Homekey Could Get More Funding (LAT)
- More Cities Protesting Regional Housing Allocations (Daily News)
- 5-Story Apartment Complex Under Construction Near Culver Expo Station (Urbanize)
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