Keep Informed

June 2008

• SAN FRANCISCO -- Discouraging driving crucial in warming battle
• VIDEO -- City of the Future
• OREGON -- Extra water, wind strain Northwest power grid
• AUSTRALIA -- Businesses not buying homeless plan
• CALIFORNIA -- Schwarzenegger sees end to housing woes in '09
• NEW JERSEY -- A better blueprint for housing
• OPINION -- Housing affordability ordinance could have opposite effect
• DENVER -- SUVs on road to nowhere
• U.S. -- Stock, Bond Slumps Signal Worse Than '94 as Inflation Says '74
• SANTIAGO -- Whale meet ends with peace agenda
• OPINION -- `Housing' and `shelter' bond money to go to rich developers
• SACRAMENTO -- Group home stirs neighbors' anxiety
• U.S. -- Speculators blamed for price hikes often are pension funds
• CALIFORNIA -- Time to leave your phone alone while driving
• U.S. -- Travelers Shift to Rail as Cost of Fuel Rises
• GERMANY -- In Germany, Traffic Signals Become a Thing of the Past
• SEATTLE -- Electric vehicles mix with the big boys at annual car show
• U.S. -- Hitting Home: New faces join ranks of the homeless
• CALIFORNIA -- Hope for housing market in state
• LOS ANGELES -- LA city controller serves city attorney with subpoena
• BALTIMORE -- A lot of lots, but not enough
• SAN JOSE -- Roadshow: Free rides bring elbow-to-elbow crowds
• COLORADO -- Fuel Prices Shift Math for Life in Far Suburbs
• PARIS -- Internet overhaul wins approval
• MIAMI -- Blacks fight for housing in Grove renewal
• U.S. -- Harvard study predicts long return to healthy housing market
• KENYA -- Rent control will destroy city’s housing
• VANCOUVER -- Rising energy costs fuel landlord, tenant worries
• PALO ALTO -- Board adopts new rent rules
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Federal judge refuses to order overhaul of VA
• VIRGINIA -- Solar panels, clothesline help family slash energy bills
• U.S. -- Electro-Shock Therapy
• CHICAGO -- Number of homeless over age 50 rising, study finds
• ATLANTA -- Homeless Pets Crowd Shelters as Families Hit Hard Times
• LOS ANGELES -- Studios bracing for a strike
• LOS ANGELES -- Thousands of Drunks Beat the California DMV
• LOS ANGELES -- Echo Park's Gentrification Woes
• SEATTLE -- Unique townhouses an exception to the rules
• UK -- Row threatens planning shake-up
• DUBAI -- Dubai plans 'moving' skyscraper
• WASHINGTON -- Housing rescue faces key test
• LOS ANGELES -- L.A. seeing more people living out of their cars
• MADISON -- City Rejects Plans For Homeless Housing Project At Old ROTC Site
• WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court to consider sonar versus whales
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Exodus of S.F.'s middle class
• OPINION -- Why The 2-Hour Commute Is A Public Policy Success
• OPINION -- Geared Up
• NEW JERSEY -- Consumer watchdog warns of lead in artificial turf
• LOS ANGELES -- Audit finds DWP chief's yard to be overflowing
• TARZANA -- Local resistance to sober-living homes growing
• SACRAMENTO -- Air board's ambitious plan to battle warming
• WASHINGTON -- Making cities less dumb
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Online bandwidth hogs to be cut off at trough?
• PORTLAND -- This Sunday, it's no cars allowed in North Portland
• NEW YORK -- On 3 Days in August, City Will Try No-Car Zone
• CALIFORNIA -- New Plan Unveiled To End Homelessness in Kern County
• PORTLAND -- Portland is home of ex-L.A. pedophile
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Appeals court limits release of text messages
• OPINION -- Fighting About How to Fight Global Warming
• U.S. -- Is America's suburban dream collapsing into a nightmare?
• LOS ANGELES -- Southland home prices go way south
• PHILADELPHIA -- Cities fight foreclosures in court
• CALIFORNIA -- Employers ponder tough tactics to halt smoking
• SAN ANTONIO -- Disabled soldiers have long wait for benefits
• NEW YORK -- Zoning Rules Are Flouted by Architect, City Says
• NEW ORLEANS -- 'Is it greener to build new or renovate?'
• PALO ALTO -- 'Keeping grocery stores' moves to top shelf
• OPINION -- Biking needs a boost in American cities
• VENICE -- Driver plows into crowd near Venice
• CALIFORNIA -- Hand-free law requires changes in behavior
• CANADA -- Owners of solar-powered home left in the dark
• LONG BEACH -- Will food animals' cruel living conditions move voters?
• WASHINGTON -- Mayors ask Congress to help fix U.S. infrastructure
• LOS ANGELES -- Office rental market simmers
• LOS ANGELES -- Grand Avenue: Is L.A. City Hall's Pet Project Foundering?
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Different sort of free Wi-Fi starts to thrive
• NEW YORK -- A Mission to Make Suburbs, Well, More Like the City
• VANCOUVER -- Vancouver's commercial downtown goes up and out to create job space
• SEATTLE -- 15 seized in homeless protest
• MASS -- Lowell vows to end homelessness
• DENVER -- Dealing away the guzzlers
• LOS ANGELES -- Cops take LAPD to court over finances disclosure
• FRESNO -- Fresno mayor ordered to explain views on homeless settlement
• SACRAMENTO -- Ghost voting: Used in Assembly for decades, critics say it is unethical
• SEATTLE -- More park cameras approved, for now
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Landscaping S.F. walkways and byways
• U.S. -- Americans fear gas shortages
• U.S. -- Salmonella takes raw tomatoes off the menu
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Surge in Northern California political giving
• CALIFORNIA -- CHP: Don't hold cellphones while driving
• CALIFORNIA -- Proposition 13's influence monumental 30 years later
• WASHINGTON -- Climate bill blocked in Senate
• U.S. -- Oil price soars as US woes mount
• BOSTON -- More dip early into funds for retirement
• SEATTLE -- Home buyers, it's your time to haggle
• U.S. -- Amazon.com's Web site crashes for two hours
• OPINION -- NYC Councilmember David Yassky Opines on Failure, Prospects of Bloomberg’s Congestion Pricing Plan
• OPINION -- Should You Swap Your SUV for a Hybrid?
• OPINION -- The Future of EnergyLOS ANGELES -- Drought officially arrives
• DALLAS -- Dallas' new homeless shelter overflowing
• OLYMPIA -- Soaring fuel costs dent government budgets
• OHIO -- Cut your high grass or face jail time
• PHOENIX -- Valley commuters rediscover bikes
• EAST HAMPTON -- Zoning Board Rejects Housing Plan
• WEST HILLS -- Water conservation liked but idea of fines has many boiling mad
• LOS ANGELES -- Worst may lie ahead as foreclosures soar in Valley, rest of area
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Scores of layoffs in $6.5 billion S.F. budget
• SEATTLE -- Townhomes don't have to be ugly
• UK -- Google accused over privacy law
• LOS ANGELES -- As gas prices climb, L.A. changes
• SEATTLE -- Urban farming sprouts in Seattle
• CHICAGO -- US rail network facing congestion 'calamity'
• WASHINGTON -- Public Transit Feels the Pinch of Gas Prices
• LONG BEACH -- City offers its workers flexible schedules
• OPINION -- There's a hidden housing crisis we need to discuss