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SBLA Editor Damien Newton Honored by Society of Professional Journalists
Last night at the Omni Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, the Society of Professional Journalists honored Streetsblog Los Angeles' founding editor, and the Southern California Streets Initiatives' Executive Director Damien Newton for "Distinguished Work in New Media." Congratulations, Damien! You've done great work and deserve the acknowledgements you're now receiving.
April 11, 2014
Sen. Steinberg Proposes Carbon Tax on Gas Instead of Cap-and-Trade
CA Senator Darrell Steinberg proposed a change yesterday to California's nascent cap-and-trade program that would replace next year's cap on fuel emissions with a per-gallon carbon tax. Steinberg called it a “broader, more stable, and more flexible” way to reduce emissions from fuels than cap-and-trade.
February 21, 2014
How Ad Dollars Help Explain the Media’s Bike Backlash
The media loves drama, of course. As your high school English teacher explained it, if Hamlet doesn’t get pissed about his dad’s murder or if Atticus Finch doesn’t step up to defend a black man falsely accused -- that is, if somebody doesn’t say no, you’ve got no story. So the vociferous opposition of a handful of people to a handful of bike lane projects in New York City has been dramatized, through a series of news stories and op-eds, into a full-blown citizens’ backlash against the complete streets movement.
April 4, 2011
Congress, Associated Press, Argue Whether Stimulus Actually Stimulated Anything
The Associated Press published a piece
today that, after putting "economists and statisticians" to work on
analyzing $21 billion in federal stimulus money for transportation,
reached a volatile conclusion:
January 11, 2010
Transportation for America Launches Legislative Campaign
Today marks the start of Transportation for America‘s “Build for America” campaign, which will work to influence the transportation funding legislation that goes before the next Congress in 2009. (You’ll be hearing a lot more about it here in the coming months; we have received a grant from the T4America campaign to kick-start the development … Continued
October 15, 2008
Senate Committee Passes Ammended Sales Tax Measure
The Bottleneck Blog reports that the logjam holding up A.B. 2321 was broken earlier today when the Committee moved an amended motion to the Senate floor. Because the amendments don't change the list of funded projects, the measure won't require a new vote by the Metro Board of Directors. It seems Metro's sales tax measure is one step closer to being on this November's ballot. Sort of.
August 13, 2008
Wall Street Journal Takes a Look at LA Bike Commuters
Wall Street Journal Celebrity Stephen Box at Bike Not to Work Day in 2007 Was there ever a subject that you talked about all of the time and thought you knew just about everything there was to know about it, then someone you don’t know has an opinion and all of a sudden you’re fascinated … Continued
August 1, 2008