Keep Informed

April 2008

• LOS ANGELES -- Toll lanes set for freeways by 2010's end
• OPINION -- Is inclusionary zoning providing our much needed affordable housing?
• CHICAGO -- Seniors being scammed by fake cops
• WASHINGTON -- People's decisions to cut back add up to weaker economy
• SAN DIEGO -- More seeking donations; shopping habits changing
• BERKELEY -- UC defends $2.1 million deal for police chief
• SEATTLE -- Seattle police offered top pay in state
• UK -- Hackers warn high street chains
• LOS ANGELES -- Angelenos Sue City Hall Over Prodensity "Affordable Housing" Pretense
• SAN FRANCISCO -- S.F. prosecutors say landlords ran amok, terrorized tenants
• PASADENA -- Advocacy groups denounce Proposition 98
• CHICAGO -- City wants Legislature to OK radar cameras
• UK -- Thieves set up data supermarkets
• UK -- Starbucks hit by housing slowdown
• VICTORIA -- Greenprint for the homes of the future
• IDAHO -- Workers talk about the ups and downs of building Boise's 'skinny building'
• AUSTRALIA -- Melbourne gets $50m in homeless housing
• LOS ANGELES -- UCLA gets injunction against animal rights groups
• NEW YORK -- For Urban Tree Planters, Concrete Is the Easy Part
• OREGON -- Northwest drivers using less gas than national average
• NEW YORK -- Euro breaks through $1.60 as dollar slumps to record low
• OPINION --The Homeownership Ideologues
• U.S. -- US military recruits more ex-cons
• U.S. -- Economic deja vu hitting tech startups
• WOODLAND HILLS -- Future in Earth-friendly jobs?
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Foreclosures soar in state, Bay Area
• SAN FRANCISCO -- VA stalling on care, judge told at S.F. trial
• LOS ANGELES -- Gas prices hit another record high
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Creeping sprawl overtakes refugees from cities
• WASHINGTON -- Credit crunch now hitting student loans
• U.S. -- Graffiti 2.0: Gone by Morning
• BREMEN -- A model city for sane transportation
• OPINION -- Like Urban Renewal, Only Backward
• CALIFORNIA -- Does Jerry Brown Want to Cut Emissions Or Just Run for Governor?
• SACRAMENTO -- How Not to Fight Global Warming
• BERKELEY -- Experts determine where sudden oak death began
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Most computer users repeat passwords, at their peril
• LOS ANGELES -- LA Murder-For-Profit Case Goes to Jury
• FRESNO -- Mayor Admits City’s Homeless Plan is a Failure
• SEATTLE -- Seattle homeless camp policy under fire
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Homeowners get that drowning feeling
• SEATTLE -- Sleepy Ballard wakes up to disconcerting growth
• UK -- Forecast for big sea level rise
• DUBLIN -- -- U.S. housing collapse spreads overseas
• EL PASO -- City wants rapid transit system running in 3 years
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Let the Computer Do the Driving
• COMPTON -- Officials probe area plane crash
• SAN FRANCISCO -- SFpark would micromanage city's scarce spaces
• SACRAMENTO -- Plastic bag use may be taxed
• U.S. -- Drug bills soar under new policy
• U.S. -- Fannie warns homeowners who walk away
• LOS ANGELES -- Accused killer, 75, was duped, attorney says
• LOS ANGELES -- Los
• ngeles' Future in Mobility: Many Goals But Many Obstacles
• LOS ANGELES -- Southern Californians feeling the gas crunch
• LOS ANGELES -- Eli Broad's luxury Grand Avenue project is now half-owned by Dubai
• MALIBU -- Teen killed, 3 others hurt in PCH rollover
• SAN FRANCISCO -- State high court shoots down S.F. handgun ban
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Rich getting richer, poor getting poorer
• OPINION -- Smart land-use regulations create a sense of community
• OPINION -- Hope for public housing
• WASHINGTON -- Pending Home Sales Hit Low in February
• SAN FRANCISCO -- S.F. sues credit card service, alleging bias
• SEATTLE -- Man evicted from 'amazing' treehouse
• PITTSBURGH -- Couple Sues Google Over "Street View"
• NEW YORK -- 75-Story Tower May Soon Rise Beside MoMA
• SALT LAKE CITY -- U. seeks to turn west lot into an active hub
• NEW YORK -- Congestion Pricing Plan Dies in Albany
• CALIFORNIA -- Bill may allow trees right to give shade
• CALIFORNIA -- Sonoma eyes wastewater as an energy source
• CALIFORNIA -- Preservation group: Before you tear down and rebuild, consider the environmental costs
• LOS ANGELES -- Charters in a tight squeeze
• NEW YORK -- Fear of future driving consumers to cut back
• CHICAGO -- Chicago housing market makes winners, losers
• OPINION -- Ad Nauseam: State Farm on the Humiliation of Biking to Work
• SEATTLE -- 'HOT' lanes wide open to solo drivers -- for a price
• WASHINGTON -- A Better Way to Get Around
• LONDON -- Porsche goes to court over congestion charge
• LONDON -- AA to use scooters to beat jams
• OPINION -- Conservatives: Just Say No To Congestion Pricing
• LOS ANGELES -- Singleton's "Small-Town L.A." Papers Nosedive
• LOS ANGELES -- Newly needy swell ranks of hungry
• U.S. -- Hackers infiltrate Google searches
• SEATTLE -- Seattle could ban foam food boxes
• U.S. -- 18 states going to court to force EPA to respond to Supreme Court ruling on global warming
• OPINION -- Fuel or folly? Ethanol and the law of unintended consequences
• UK -- Astronomers see 'youngest planet'
• SYDNEY -- Sydney considers taking down freeway
• NEW YORK -- Fighting a New 125th St., Using a 110-Year-Old Law