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Dueling road plans propose higher taxes, seek to reduce driving
Drivers are likely scratching their heads over conflicting approaches to transportation goals in the state and cities. A coalition of business and labor organizations supported a plan to raise funds for road repair to the tune of $6 billion a year
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Official San Diego stadium plan tougher than task force’s
San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and San Diego County Supervisor Ron Roberts on Monday unveiled architectural renderings, a financing scheme and a 6,000-page draft environmental impact report for a $1.1 billion, 68,000-seat NFL stadium to keep the Chargers from going to
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Chargers’ saga at a crucial juncture
San Diego officials meet with an NFL team owners committee Monday in Chicago in what could be the decisive meeting of the summer related to whether the Chargers will move to Los Angeles. The Spanos family, owner of the team, says
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Santa Cruz County targets felonious Wall Street banks
Millions of Americans — mostly but not entirely on the political left — remain furious that Wall Street giants were protected by the political class from catastrophe during the Great Recession even though their dangerous credit and lending practices were
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New fee would push S.F. housing costs even higher
The cost of housing in San Francisco and Silicon Valley has been a national news story throughout 2015. On Wednesday, for example, USA Today reported that teachers could no longer afford to live in San Francisco. This has prompted hand-wringing
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Contra Costa supervisors paid twice for vehicle costs
Some members of the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors are facing sharp questions about their ethics and honesty over perceived double-dipping on car allowances, Dan Borenstein of the Bay Area News Group reports. At the behest of Supervisors Mary
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Bullet train agency still slow to acquire land
Buying land for California’s bullet train remains a slow and contentious process for the state’s high-speed rail agency — but the state’s top rail official said this week he doesn’t expect any “significant” project delays as a result. The California
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CA ‘conundrum’: Water use down, bills up
Californians reacted impressively to Gov. Jerry Brown’s late-spring call for major water conservation, cutting usage by 27 percent in June. But many aren’t happy about it — because for millions of ratepayers, conservation hasn’t led to cost savings. Newspapers around
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CA geothermal power dreams appear dashed
Geothermal power had a huge year in 2014 — in Kenya, Turkey, Ethiopia and Germany. But in all of the U.S., according to a Geothermal Energy Association report, total power generated by geothermal was less then 3 gigawatts for the year
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Greens targeting last CA nuclear plant
Environmentalists who hope to shut down California’s last remaining nuclear power plant are expected to attend a State Water Resources Control Board meeting on Tuesday in Sacramento to make their case that the Diablo Canyon facility is unsafe. The board
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