Keep Informed

December 2007

• SACRAMENTO -- New laws for 2008: car smoking ban, minimum wage hike and more
• LOS ANGELES -- Toll lanes may be price for freeways that move
• LOS ANGELES -- L.A. Architecture: What We Lost in 2007
• WORLD -- Best of the Worst in Planning for 2007
• OPINION -- Kathleen Pender's crystal ball looks for a bolt out of the blue
• U.S. -- Architects Bring High Design To Affordable Housing
• NEW YORK -- The World of Tomorrow
• UK -- Boom times for hi-tech criminals
• MILWAUKEE -- Developers keep plugging away
• WASHINGTON -- Fed unveils plan to curb shady home lending practices
• BOSTON -- As foreclosures mount, tenants suffer
• SAN FRANCISCO -- As upscale home complexes add great chefs, more buyers are biting
• U.S. -- Cities cultivate 2 types of green
• VANCOUVER -- Unique blanket protects Vancouver's homeless from rain and legal abuse
• ATLANTA -- Consultant: Atlanta's traffic is endangering its growth
• OPINION -- S.F. paramedic says homeless people burden hospitals
• SACRAMENTO -- California health care plan wins Assembly vote; Senate up next
• NEW YORK -- How the NYPD's blackly grim stop-and-frisk numbers got whitewashed
• BERKELEY -- Berkeley hopes to restore its downtown to life
• OPINION -- Let the ‘Starchitects’ Work All the Angles
• OPINION -- What Makes a Place Walkable?
• PHILADELPHIA -- Bill will require low-cost housing
• PARIS -- Police tear down tents for homeless
• UK -- Homeless children figure 'doubles'
• U.S. -- Green Party, RIP
• WASHINGTON -- Pelosi leads the House to go organic in its cafeterias
• NEW YORK -- The Education of Daniel Doctoroff
• NEW YORK -- Historic graffiti mural discovered in Manhattan building 
• SAN FRANCISCO -- SF mayor proposes carbon tax to curb global warming
• LOS ANGELES -- Visions of 'Chinatown North'
• PARIS -- The lighting guru of Notre Dame
• SEATTLE -- Council votes to limit retail, offices on industrial lands
• BALTIMORE -- City tells homeless to leave encampment soon or risk arrest
• LOS ANGELES -- Disaster in the Making
• LOS ANGELES -- L.A. Gangs: Nine Miles and Spreading
• CANADA -- Extinction threat to wild salmon
• SAN RAFAEL -- Fake tickets land parking company in hot water
• WASHINGTON -- Stripped Down Energy Bill Likely to Pass
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Mortgage crisis perplexes even shrewd investor Warren Buffett
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Giuliani has advice for S.F. on dealing with the homeless
• CALIFORNIA -- Housing downturn may hit California hardest, experts warn
• WASHINGTON -- Fed expected to cut interest rates for a third time to address mortgage crisis
• SEATTLE -- A wealth of condos sets stage for renters
• NEW YORK -- Grocery Is Flash Point for Changing Neighborhood
• LOS ANGELES -- Water conservation in LA relatively flat
• WASHINGTON -- Trade group lifts outlook for 2008 home sales, insists US housing market is
• tabilizing
• U.S. -- Low Rent High Tech
• OPINION -- Loan bailout is not likely to help many homeowners
• U.S. -- The Case against Regional Growth-Management Planning
• UK -- 'Digital locks' future questioned
• LOS ANGELES -- Idled workers rally as Hollywood strike heads into sixth week
• TUCSON -- Homeless man arrested for not taking his medicine
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Debate heats up over health care for S.F. city retirees
• HOLLYWOOD -- Reality TV is introduced as an obstacle in Hollywood writers contract talks
• LAWNDALE -- Lawndale restricts concrete front yards
• OPINION -- Reform or Regulation? Year of the Election Might Have a Split Personality
• SEATTLE -- Housing market decline called likely to continue
• WASHINGTON -- House Approves Energy Bill
• UK -- All nations 'need emission goals'
• SEATTLE -- Seattle may make harassing homeless a crime
• LOS ANGELES -- UCLA forecast predicts recession not likely
• LOS ANGELES -- WGA Strike's Fountain of Youth
• PALO ALTO -- Cyclists turned away as Caltrain ridership surges
• SEATTLE -- Nickels to employees: Take bus
• SAN DIEGO -- Smart growth policy revision needed, some say
• CONN -- Judging Eminent Domain
• U.S. -- Bush mortgage plan will freeze certain subprime interest rates for 5 years
• SEATTLE -- City Council wants builders to account for global warming
• BERKELEY -- East Bay mayors, UC chancellor unite for 'Green Wave'
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Program helps low-income S.F. residents start bank accounts
• LOS ANGELES -- Digital billboards get green light
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Cell phone firms remain among most unpopular
• OPINION -- The Streetcar Surge
• U.S. -- Study Details How U.S. Could Cut 28% of Greenhouse Gases
• UK -- Games content 'concerns parents'
• LOS ANGELES -- Developer's $20,000 lesson: You can't fight City Hall
• VAN NUYS -- Food bank cupboards are going bare
• SEATTLE -- Getting There: Pedestrians at 4-way stop alter the rules
• UK -- Push for faster net 'premature'
• LOS ANGELES -- Time Does Steve Yagman
• BERKELEY -- Council OKs crackdown for parks, sidewalks