Keep Informed

October 2007

• SEATTLE -- City tries to ease tensions between bicyclists, motorists
• LOS ANGELES -- Writers strike after bargaining fails
• LOS ANGELES -- Police help gang-infested community reclaim ground
• CALIFORNIA -- State air regulators want go-ahead on auto exhaust reduction rules
• CALIFORNIA -- Robot cars race around California
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Feds go after wildly successful medical pot sellers
• LOS ANGELES -- Writers Strike Looms Over Hollywood
• LOS ANGELES -- WGA Strike Q&A
• LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles spends more, revenue drops
• CALIFORNIA -- Going negative: 42% of state's voters say state headed downward
• OPINION -- PDX Inked
• OPINION -- Let Malibu Burn: A political history of the Fire Coast
• LOS ANGELES -- Some Respite, if Little Cheer, for Skid Row Homeless
• LOS ANGELES -- City considers fines for hospitals that dump homeless in LA
• CALIFORNIA -- Driving can be bad for your lungs, study says
• LONG BEACH -- Plastic, styrofoam could be on their way out in L.B.
• SEATTLE -- Mixed news on home prices
• SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA -- Effects of fires on plant, animal life worry experts
• CALIFORNIA -- Feds want to survey, possibly clean up vast garbage pit in Pacific
• SAN FRANCISCO -- If you're an S.F. cop, Central Station is where it's at
• SEATTLE -- City beats its goal, but auto emissions still are growing
• CANADA -- New plan to help homeless
• SAN FRANCISCO -- S.F. D.A. cracking down on tickets issued to homeless
• WASHINGTON -- FCC plan could be cable TV boon for renters
• LONDON -- Retailer reacts to media report of children making Gap clothes in India
• OPINION -- Homeless are only L.A.'s new `campers'
• LOS ANGELES -- Neighborhood councils discuss how to exercise power
• CALIFORNIA -- Home building in fire zones under scrutiny
• LOS ANGELES -- ATM thefts increasingUK -- Soup for homeless could be curbed
• CALIFORNIA -- Billions in housing wealth at risk as foreclosures soar
• LOS ANGELES -- Preservationists to sue LAUSD over plans to level historic Cocoanut Grove
• SACRAMENTO -- State gets early start in cutting air pollution
• WASHINGTON -- FEMA Workers Play Role of Reporters
• OPINION -- Strike Happy
• LOS ANGELES -- 11,000 more foreclosures, $2.6 billion loss forecast for L.A., Orange counties
• HOLLYWOOD -- Asian Pop: Saving Cinema's Seoul
• SEATTLE -- Remodeled downtown hygiene center for the homeless already at capacity
• U.S. -- Looking for attractive people? Don't go to...
• OTTOWA -- UN housing envoy scolds Canadians
• OPINION -- Bulldozing the American Dream
• SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA -- Fire chief says state unprepared for deadly Calif. blazes
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Bay Area families open their homes to fire evacuees
• LOS ANGELES -- Californian fires affect TV shows
• UK -- Climate threat to biodiversity
• U.S. -- Countrywide in $16bn subprime rescue
• U.S. -- The Prophet of Climate Change: James Lovelock
• LOS ANGELES -- Californians flee as fires rage
• NEW YORK -- Homeless Must Wait to Get Rental "Advantage"
• HOUSTON -- Metro panel votes for light rail on all five planned lines
• LONG BEACH -- Condo conversions threaten L.B.
• U.S. -- Children detach from natural world as they explore the virtual one
• SAN DIEGO -- Downtown Has a Sunnier Disposition
• LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood film, TV writers' union authorized to strike
• SIDNEY -- Walkers first on naked streets
• SACRAMENTO -- California will sue EPA for right to enforce strict clean-air law
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Lights go out tomorrow at 8 p.m.
• HOUSTON -- Houston's Twilight Zone: Projects Rise in Odd Spots
• OPINION -- Heartless Los Angeles Allows Sleeping on Sidewalks
• LOS ANGELES -- Lenders that repossessed property slashing prices
• SAN FRANCISCO -- S.F. cop on hot seat for writing sizzling letter about homeless
• LOS ANGELES -- Better Than Phone Tax
• LONG BEACH -- Hard day's labor gets easier
• OPINION -- Wi-Fi, the death of us all
• WASHINGTON -- Paulson Urges Action on Housing Crisis
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Support for supervised drug injection is growing
• HAYWARD -- City will examine safety of food giveaways to homeless
• SEATTLE -- Fresh-produce market makes some gains with schools
• AMHERST -- Homeless Families on the Rise, with No End in Sight
• SAN DIEGO -- Local and federal officials differ on effectiveness of homeless program
• OPINION -- The Chronicle Sinks to a New Low
• PORTLAND -- City gives bike rentals a spin
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Mortgage Meltdown: Neighborhoods Crumble in
• ave of Foreclosures
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Scientists gauge greenhouse gases above S.F. in warming experiment
• LOS ANGELES -- Are you being well-served? In L.A., it's a mixed bag
• LONG BEACH -- L.B. City Council to talk trailers
• LOS ANGELES -- Luxury lodging for your machine
• NEW YORK -- "Ineligible" Homeless Families To Be Shut Out Of Shelters Friday
• DALLAS -- Homeless Sleep in Church Parking Lot
• LOS ANGELES -- MTA's $1 Billion Development Scheme
• NEW YORK -- City woos educators with Bronx housing plan
• LOS ANGELES -- KPFK needs to raise some hush money
• UK -- Wi-fi health study gets go ahead
• OPINION -- Downsize Me! Shrinking the McMansion Diet
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Bay Area home foreclosures triple in September
• SACRAMENTO -- New law forbids landlord immigration checks
• WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court splits on NY special ed case, leaving city schools to pay private tuition
• BELMONT -- Belmont bans smoking in apartments
• LOS ANGELES -- City, ACLU reach settlement agreement on homeless
• LOS ANGELES -- Historic significance of Felix sign to be decided
• U.K. -- Gore climate film's 'nine errors'
• U.S. -- Big Cities Hop On The Bicycle Bandwagon
• BERKELEY -- Tree-sitters' leader launches bid to recall Berkeley mayor
• SAN FRANCISO -- Techies take on spam zombies
• LOS ANGELES -- USC study shows peer-led programs reduce drug abuse
• OPINION -- 'Enough is enough,' S.F. says of homeless
• WASHINGTON -- Power giant settles suit
• SAN FRANCISCO -- SF Homeless Program Hits New Milestone
• LONG BEACH -- Council may scrap hotel union plan
• LOS ANGELES -- A sweet deal for city unions
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Officials hope voters might favor gas tax boost to fight warming
• OPINION -- C.W. Nevius visits the homeless sweep area South of Market
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Downtown patrols to shepherd homeless people
• NEW YORK -- NYC Mayor: Surveillance a City Necessity
• NEW YORK -- 'Howl' too hot to hear
• LOS ANGELES -- Real home on horizon for working-class families
• PHOENIX -- Corridor ruling sets up grid fight
• OPINION -- Making a commitment to help the mentally ill
• NEW YORK -- When Downtown Is in the Suburbs
• CONN -- Where Water Turned Land Into Gold
• LOS ANGELES -- Mayor's plan for new trees now at 110,000 - but where are they?
• NASHVILLE -- "Ministry's Homeless Food Operation Concerns Health Dept."
• LOS ANGELES -- South Bay beachgoers still light up
• LOS ANGELES -- More than 13% of DWP workers are paid $100,000 and up
• CALIFORNIA -- Lodi police crack down on homeless
• TOKYO -- Homeless of Tokyo using internet cafes