Keep Informed

October 2006

• SAN FRANCISCO -- A daily walk finds fewer homeless
• CALIFORNIA -- Absentee voting changes dynamic
• SEATTLE -- Clean vs. dirty is only part of renewable energy debate
• CALIFORNIA -- Building permits plummet
• OPINION -- The Housing Fire Sale
• LOS ANGELES -- Skid Row skin infection spreads
• LOS ANGELES -- Unpaid parking tickets add up
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Bay Area foreclosures on rise
• OPINION -- The Worst Crime You've Never Heard Of
• OPINION -- Third Time's the Charm
• LOS ANGELES -- Court lifts MTA restraints
• LOS ANGELES -- County to audit touch-screen voting systems
• SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco's red-light denizens fight to stay seedy
• U.S. -- Home prices plunge by most in 35 years
• OPINION -- After the Housing Bubble Bursts
• OPINION -- Pasadena puts Santa Monica to shame
• U.S. -- Rents Are High All Over
• LOS ANGELES -- Low pay, high rent, wit's end
• U.S. -- Sales of existing homes fall for sixth month
• CALABASAS -- Housing slowdown costs jobs
• CHICAGO -- Daley seeks to slow condo conversions
• DAVIS -- Let's Get Scrappy About Energy
• LOS ANGELES -- LA police allege patients left on street
• SAN DIEGO -- Plan to end homelessness approved
• CHICAGO -- Clout workers' compensation claims are costing city taxpayers millions
• U.S. -- Where To Worry About Real Estate
• OPINION -- Prop. 90’s Downside
• U.S. -- Google offers personal searches
• U.S. -- How Bad Are Your Carbon Emissions?
• LOS ANGELES -- Pay plan intrusive or just?
• LOS ANGELES -- LAPD arrests sidewalk sleepers
• OPINION -- Prop 90 Protects Your Home
• OPINION -- Can The U.S. Learn From The Slow City Movement?
• Beverly Hills -- Strolls, not Rolls on Rodeo Drive
• SAN DIEGO -- Aguirre, pension fund to take the stage
• CALIFORNIA -- Nov. 7 voting mainly by mail
• SACRAMENTO -- Firms lead way in ballot spending
• FLORIDA -- Developers consider suing Riviera Beach, state in eminent domain case
• SEATTLE -- It's a hot hotel market downtown
• SAN DIEGO -- Fight grows between Sanders and City Council
• LOS ANGELES -- Judge to weigh lifting MTA's consent decree
• LOS ANGELES -- Fighting for Housing
• U.S. -- Sprawl Hurts Lower Income Families
• FRESNO -- ACLU sues Fresno saying homeless raids violate civil rights
• CALIFORNIA -- Median home price to drop
• CALIFORNIA -- Voters hazy about ballot's bond package
• SEATTLE -- Paid for not taking the car to work
• U.S. -- US shows signs of net addiction
• CALIFORNIA -- Give and Takings
• CALIFORNIA -- Voters face deep debt or shabby state
• LOS ANGELES -- DWP urged to sell its 74 electric cars to private buyers
• SAN FRANCISCO -- When good cities have bad architecture
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Innovative housing pitches
• UK -- Fury at plan to site homeless hostel near top Capital school
• SAN DIEGO -- Financial statement doesn't pass go
• LOS ANGELES -- Battle looms on bus fares
• LOS ANGELES -- Little-Known State Law Gives No-Parking Perk
• LONG BEACH -- City may audit police dept.
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Blogger stays in prison, defying grand jury order
• SEATTLE -- EPA budget reduction could expose more minorities, poor to pollution
• OPINION -- Learning from the Spinach scare
• DENVER -- Colorado's rural homeless
• LOS ANGELES -- Prop. 90 Worries L.A. Officials
• LOS ANGELES -- Online predators now the hunted
• ORLANDO -- Suit filed over homeless meals
• NEW YORK -- Security Barriers of New York Are Removed
• WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Longer Commutes Outweigh Savings of Living in Outer Suburbs, Study Shows
• OPINION -- The Sad Death Of 'Organic'
• LOS ANGELES -- League in midst of political issues
• SO CAL -- AQMD presents plan to reduce emissions
• DAYTONA -- Police chief wants to get homeless off streets
• COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Business owners react to proposed homeless shelters
• OPINION -- Guilty of Being Homeless in America
• U.S. -- Causes of Sprawl: A Portrait from Space
• UK -- Warning over 'broken up' internet
• UK -- Young shoppers want to pay with chip in skin
• CALIFORNIA -- Election season starts this week -- at the mailbox
• U.S. -- Forecast sees housing prices falling
• U.S. -- Where Housing Prices Will Fall the Most
• U.S. -- Voters get a say on land rights
• SAN DIEGO -- 8 of 9 quit S.D. Food Bank board
• U.S. -- Baby boomers upping homeless age
• U.S. -- Improved Neighborhoods Don't Raise Academic Achievement
• LOS ANGELES -- Mayor details plan to make L.A. more business-friendly
• AZUSA -- Riverbed no longer home
• CALIFORNIA -- Mogul's network bankrolls Prop. 90; Web of advocacy groups funnels millions to pass property rights initiative
• CALIFORNIA -- Twenty years into recycling, California celebrates a big success
• MALIBU -- Malibu tests waters for waste
• US -- When Building ‘Green,’ It’s Still Tough to Find a Builder
• US -- Housing Market Downturn in Full Swing
• CALIFORNIA -- Community colleges to get extra funds from legislation
• UK -- Geekspeak still baffles web users
• LOS ANGELES -- Marketing for elections
• SACRAMENTO -- Bumpy roads prove costly for Angelenos
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Homeless feel unwelcome
• INDIANA -- Child care touted as economic tool
• LOS ANGELES -- Southland ranks worst in air quality
• SACRAMENTO -- Gov. signs global warming legislation
• SAN FRANCISCO -- City to Dismantle Homeless Encampments
• CALIFORNIA -- Stats show dramatic slowdown in California housing market
• SEATTLE -- Home values might hinge on ABCs
• CALIFORNIA -- HMOs could perform better, state survey says
• LOS ANGELES -- Witch hunt for churches?
• LOS ANGELES -- Skid Row's overnight camps get OK
• SACRAMENTO -- State red tape trips up green energy efforts
• LOS ANGELES -- LAHSA picks lawyer to run ailing agency
• LOS ANGELES -- MTA plans to redraw transit map
• US -- Henry Cisneros's New Career: Fostering Affordable Homes
• US -- Housing dip starting to hurt US economy