Transportation Funding
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Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez Calls for Snoble to Resign
Roger Snobel in a Times File Photo from 2001
April 11, 2008
The City Council’s 25 Ways to Improve Transportation
This Might Take More Than 25 Suggestions to Fix
April 8, 2008
Desert Dispatch and OC Register Add to Anti-Feuer Editorials
As we get closer to next week’s hearing on Mike Feuer’s transportation funding legislation, you can expect to see more and more piling on as newspapers trip over themselves to see who can write the worst editorial. So far, the Press Enterprise's "Daily Dude" still has that distinction.
April 8, 2008
Daily Breeze Joins the Anti-Feuer Editorial Movement
This Has Nothing to Do with Global Warming
April 7, 2008
Papers Ganging Up on Feuer Legislation
Last week we saw the Investor's Business Daily advise people that global warming doesn't exist and any tax on gas is a bad idea. IBD isn't the only voice criticising Feuer's legislation, the Press-Enterprise's "Daily Dude" is enraged at the mere thought of increasing the gas tax to help fight global warming but leaves out any substantial discussion to leave space for jokes about pandas mating.
April 7, 2008
Investor’s Magazine: Hooray for Highways! Boo for Gas Taxes!
The Investor's Business Daily has written an editorial extolling the virtues of wider freeways and lower gas taxes. It's a great piece of car culture thinking from the last century. Taken with State Farm's advertisement bashing bike commuters as poorly dressed losers, it really shows how far we still have to go.
April 3, 2008
Feuer’s Funding Bills Head to Hearings Next Week (Updated)
The First Step to Getting This Funded Happens Next Week in Sacramento
March 31, 2008
March Madness: Bruins, O’Connor Both Win During TV Showdown
LA Streetsblog picks up the action as UCLA holds a 28-15 lead over the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers in their Sweet Sixteen match up in the NCAA Tournament. UCLA is wearing their home whites despite being miles from Westwood. The game is being broadcast nationally at CBS.
March 28, 2008