Keep Informed

March 2008

• LOS ANGELES -- Why L.A. Is Park Poor
• FRANCE -- France's Nouvel wins top architecture prize
• SAN DIEGO -- Serious trash talk
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Meter violation in downtown S.F. may cost $60
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Cities pay huge salaries despite fiscal crises
• BEIJING -- The most insane building boom in the history of man
• LOS ANGELES -- Antonio v. Zev: The Battle Over Growth -- and the L.A. Mayor's Seat -- Has Begun
• SCOTLAND -- Homeless waiting time 'trebles'
• NEW YORK -- Street Trees Are No Longer an Optional Accessory
• SANTA ROSA -- Wireless disruption
• ATLANTA -- Down-and-outers are targets of bar owner's 'Bum Bot'
• PALO ALTO -- Automakers begin to move on plug-in cars
• SEATTLE -- Starbucks won't pay back barista tips
• OPINION -- Plastic vs. paper -- the cat angle
• OREGON -- Whose Property Rights?
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Bar codes create bridge for window-shoppers
• MONTREAL -- Problem of homelessness has worsened: Layton
• OPINION -- Is the boom over for alternative energy – or just getting started?
• OPINION -- Let's Pave Streets Green
• NEW YORK -- Mayor Bloomberg and allies work to win converts to congestion pricing plan
• LOS ANGELES -- Ontario thinning homeless population at Tent City
• ARIZONA -- Getting There: Tempe testing colored bicycle lanes
• NEW YORK -- Paterson Supports Congestion Pricing
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Salary spending drains money flowing to S.F.
• U.S. -- Home Sales Rose in February
• SEATTLE -- Good pay, steady work, few takers as young people spurn the trades
• SEATTLE -- Residential parking zone divides neighbors on Queen Anne
• TORONTO -- Urban tragedy unfolding as highrise to erase history
• LOS ANGELES -- Support dips for half-cent sales tax to improve transit
• SAN FRANCISCO -- S.F. video cameras don't deter crime, study shows
• HOLLYWOOD -- "Anonymous" vs. Scientology: Group Targets "Church" Headquarters
• SAN DIEGO -- Starbucks told to pay $100 million for giving baristas' tips to bosses
• SEATTLE -- Teaching homeless tots the ABCs
• SANTA CRUZ -- County wants to cut the red tape, and that has growth foes concerned
• VANCOUVER -- Condo boom pushing out city's creatives
• LOS ANGELES -- Prosecutors shut down mortgage scam artists
• LONG BEACH -- Where both trees and the sidewalk win
• U.S. -- Fed battles to restore confidence
• LOS ANGELES -- County to crack down on deadbeats
• AUSTRALIA -- Families 'the new homeless'
• SEATTLE -- Seattle passes lobbyist disclosure requirements
• BERKELEY -- Asian library is among best new buildings
• U.S. -- News media needs to have consumers pay
• MIAMI -- Dade rolling out massive parks plan
• WASHINGTON -- Letting the Market Drive Transportation
• BOSTON -- No Big Dig copycats
• CALIFORNIA -- Governor, schools chief take side opposite of UTLA leader after court's decision on home schooling
• SACRAMENTO -- Proposed school cuts set up standoff
• OPINION -- Dense Overgrowth
• MIAMI -- Flip? Flop
• U.S. -- Overstating income helped sink mortgage industry
• SAN FRANCISCO -- More in foreclosure choose to walk away
• AUSTIN -- Combat poverty with a regional approach
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Bay Area's 25 deadliest roads for cyclists
• CALIFORNIA -- Foes mobilize to fight rent control measure
• CALIFORNIA -- Will the “Dueling Ballot Measure” Strategy Work?
• CALIFORNIA -- Layoff notices set to hit teachers' mailboxes
• ONTARIO -- Only homeless with Ontario ties may stay
• DALLAS -- Mayor Leppert says city must embrace its homeless
• U.S. -- Housing Market Has Further to Fall
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Home sales, prices continue slide
• SEATTLE -- A new way to wheel and deal
• NEW HAMPSHIRE -- Clothesline rule creates flap
• OPINION -- Historic preservation in city faces challenge
• LOS ANGELES -- Low-income renters being squeezed out
• MALIBU -- First City Council Candidates Forum Looks at MoHo Issues
• LOS ANGELES -- Did Subway Cheaters Put Egg On L.A.'s Face?
• OPINION -- Commute will only get worse
• OPINION -- How helping the homeless can hurt them
• SAN DIEGO -- Bench-Warmers Sought to Block Homeless
• CHINA -- More people in U.S. go hungry, homeless
• FRANCE -- France's sordid housing crisis
• U.S. -- US tightens air quality standards
• U.S. -- Government Reports Warn Planners on Sea-Rise Threat to U.S. Coasts
• SEATTLE -- Foreclosures are up in King County and across state
• MASS -- Will Downsizing McMansions Fatten Architects’ Wallets?
• SAN FRANCISCO -- S.F. to make homeless shelters more homey
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Bicycle fatalities on the rise in Bay Area
• LOS ANGELES -- Defiant board head urges suit on new housing rule
• CALIFORNIA -- Paradise soon to be lost in San Joaquin County
• LANCASTER -- Arrow shot kills homeless man
• SAN DIEGO -- Sprinter gets green light, will start service Sunday
• LOS ANGELES -- Federal decision takes land away from veterans home
• LOS ANGELES -- Bonanza for county CEOs
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Aging Boomers could burst housing bubble
• CUPERTINO -- Sheriff's deputy hits cyclists, killing 2
• SEATTLE -- Transit benefits: new study, new campaign
• VANCOUVER -- A two-wheel solution to a more livable city
• U.S. -- Foreclosures on rise, home equity at record low
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Court challenge prompts CSU to drop civility code for students
• U.S. -- AAA Says Auto Accidents Cost $164.2 Billion a Year
• CALIFORNIA -- State scrambles to fund global warming fight
• UK -- MPs call for rise in green taxes
• NEW YORK -- City Sees Decrease in Homeless Population
• NEW YORK -- No spare change for homeless: subway ad campaign
• OPINION -- Homeless by the bay
• OPINION -- Long Beach Mayor Answers: ‘What Public Policies Best Incent Renewable Energy?’
• CALIFORNIA -- State scrambles to fund global warming fight
• UK -- MPs call for rise in green taxes
• NEW YORK -- City Sees Decrease in Homeless Population
• NEW YORK -- No spare change for homeless: subway ad campaign
• OPINION -- Homeless by the bay
• OPINION -- Long Beach Mayor Answers: ‘What Public Policies Best Incent Renewable energy?’
• SACRAMENTO -- State scrambles to fund global warming fight
• SAN FRANCISCO -- Bronze plaques may mark where homeless died
• SEATTLE -- Street of Dreams homes burned, eco-terrorists suspected
• SAN JOSE -- VTA finds hydrogen buses cost much more to run than diesel vehicles
• U.S. -- US 'Homeless Czar' Tours New Orleans