Keep Informed

July 2006

• CHICAGO -- Retailers expected to fight 'living wage' bill
• LOS ANGELES -- Triple-digit heat puts an extra burden on Valley's homeless
• LOS ANGELES -- Council snubs public views
• LONG BEACH -- Home sales take a plunge
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Whole Foods, taking flak, thinks local
• ORLANDO -- Orlando Bans Feeding Homeless Downtown
• FRANCE -- Homeless Tent Camps Draw Ire in Paris
• OPINION -- Gloria Jeff Resolves to Bring L.A. City’s Dept. of Transportation Up To Speed
• CALIFORNIA -- California power grid bends, doesn't break
• US -- Scientists split on heat wave cause
• LOS ANGELES -- Council set to increase city fees
• SEATTLE -- Red-light cameras rev into action
• LONG BEACH -- City considers new taxes
• CALIFORNIA -- Power supply on verge of crisis
• CALIFORNIA -- Energy efficiency explored
• CALIFORNIA -- Car insurers sue to block ZIP code rule change
• SAN DIEGO -- City amends affordable-housing law
• LOS ANGELES -- Report: MTA workers' OT unearned
• TORONTO -- Rooms at the top answer to urban woes
• U.S. -- Constructing a Better Environment
• CALIFORNIA -- Big Oil lobbyists stall bills in Legislature that industry opposes
• LOS ANGELES -- MTA's Molina vows agency turnaround
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Bay Area still isn't building enough houses
• OPINION -- Jane Jacobs Revisited
• WASHINGTON -- Poor pay more for services, study says
• NEW YORK -- NYC moves to break up homeless encampments
• SAN DIEGO -- Zeroing in, and keeping tabs, on crime
• OPINION -- Car-less In Seattle
• OPINION -- S.F. creative types headed elsewhere
• UK -- Digital home 'still 10 years off'
• CALIFORNIA -- Electricity usage expected to peak
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Far-flung Bay Area towns hope commuters will hop out of bed and onto the train
• PAICOMA -- Five families begin life in new Habitat homes
• LOS ANGELES -- Condo conference draws protest
• LOS ANGELES -- Builders' fee costs skewed
• LONG BEACH -- Property values in L.B. climb
• SAN DIEGO -- City attorney opposes unsealing his divorce
• CHICAGO -- Plants, grass on the rooftop? No longer an oddity
• SAN DIEGO -- S.D. may put a lid on lobbyists
• CALIFORNIA -- Top court turns down Wal-Mart -- cities can ban big-box stores
• SEATTLE -- Washington State Will Vote On Property Rights Initiative
• LOS ANGELES -- City Ordinance Makes Sleeping On Streets Illegal
• LOS ANGELES -- A Scathing Rebuke For LA's Building Department?
• SAN FRANCISCO -- The next real estate boom
• LOS ANGELES -- Building safety sacrificed
• LOS ANGELES -- Hospitals running out of blood
• LONG BEACH -- L.B. helps youth get to work
• SAN DIEGO -- Mayor sees pay raises next year for officers
• SEATTLE -- Street gangs using Internet for violent bragging rights
• MINNESOTA -- Cameras offer TV surveillance in town of 420
• SAN DIEGO -- Financial guru says expect lower returns
• SEATTLE -- Effect of climate change on oceans gaining attention
• CALIFORNIA -- New student ID numbers to be issued
• CHICAGO -- New controversy for sex offenders
• CHICAGO -- McMansion envy
• UK -- Older people 'missing out' online
• OPINION -- Bus experiment happily now in rear-view mirror
• LOS ANGELES -- Saving history for city of L.A.
• LOS ANGELES -- Gangs get tangled up in Web
• SAN DIEGO -- S.D. cops flee city's fiscal mess, seek jobs at other departments
• ST. LOUIS -- Homeless veterans seek permanent encampment in St. Louis
• OPINION -- Before we hammer another nail
• UK -- Global warming: Crisis for Earth?
• SAN FRANCISCO --Health proposal may pay off big
• SAN DIEGO -- Quick bond OKs could return to bite council
• CALIFORNIA -- Study Shows San Andreas Primed for Major Quake
• FRANCE -- Test driving a cityscape