Headlines
Today's News Roundup
Karl Nielsen
The Bay Area’s headlines, all in one place.
Housing/Development
- Bay Area cities win $5 million to create new housing policies [Mercury News]
- Sonoma City Council, planning commission to talk housing [Sonoma Index-Tribune]
- Fairfax to consider short-term rental fees, regulations [Marin Independent Journal]
- Student housing is tight. A California plan wants $5 billion for affordable beds [Cal Matters]
Transportation
- VTA will require all employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19 [Mercury News]
- Why haven’t I had to get my 2016 car smog-tested? Roadshow [Mercury News]
- Update: Local officials react to SMART station setback [Petaluma Argus-Courier]
- Napa must help hawks to build Soscol Junction [Napa Valley Register]
- California could soon front the bill for school buses, transit passes [Mercury News]
- How the Dutch Delivered a Traffic Safety Revolution [Bloomberg]
- Golden Gate Transit bus drivers authorize strike [Marin Independent Journal]
Other
- Solano joins as yet unfunded ‘regional approach’ to threat from rising sea levels [Fairfield Daily Republic]
- This Bay Area Doctor Says Climate Action Is Central to Health [KQED]
- Bay Area air quality officials seeking tougher regulators against East Bay Valero refinery following years of ‘harmful’ emissions [San Francisco Chronicle]
- Bay Area wind turbines pose threat to ‘George Clooney’ of the bat world [Mercury News]