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Mercury News

San Jose is now towing abandoned cars again: Roadshow

SF Chronicle

San Francisco’s first tiny home village for homeless people opens. At $15,000 a pop, city says it’s cost-effective

Associated Press

Upbeat Gov. Newsom to deliver California State of the State [Tuesday, March 8, 5 p.m.]

Mercury News

Google and Twitter reopenings launch grand experiment on the future of Silicon Valley work

CalMatters

How governments worsen poverty in California

SF Chronicle

Traffic patterns show how much region lags the U.S. in returning to offices

East Bay Times

This $1 Bay Bridge shuttle is the best deal in public transit

Mercury News

Why you shouldn’t fret about new drivers on Highway 17: Roadshow

Marin Independent Journal

Tiburon approves more license plate scanning cameras

Napa Valley Register

California has highest average gas prices in U.S. – with Napa County at the top

SF Chronicle

S.F. may embrace fourplexes — while undercutting part of state density law

Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Housing advocates seek funding to repeal California law

Napa Valley Register

Five-home Alta East Subdivision approved by Napa city planners

SF Chronicle

Stitching 2,600 miles of trails together is goal of new collaborative

Napa Valley Register

Napa City Council approves infrastructure financing plan

East Bay Times

Does VTA have tunnel vision on its BART extension? Inside the San Jose subway debate

Mercury News

All of California, Bay Area top $5 average gasoline price

Mercury News

Hearse trying to use HOV lane not an urban legend: Roadshow

Marin Independent Journal

San Mateo Daily Journal

Caltrain approves governance reform plan

SF Examiner

The Bay Area has twice as many parking spots as people—and there’s a hidden toll

SF Chronicle

Bay Area rents are approaching pre-COVID levels. Here's where prices are rising fastest

Napa Valley Register

City of Napa planners approve Cal-West Rentals location on Pueblo Avenue

SF Examiner

‘Cars to Casas’: Housing solution, or more of the same?

SF Chronicle

Google will require office workers to return in April after repeated delays

Marin Independent Journal

Marin supervisors review plan to create new housing units

East Bay Times

California plan calls for 2.5 million new homes by 2030, double previous target

East Bay Times

Walnut Creek: Palmer School to be razed, replaced by 125 townhouses

East Bay Times

Why did Dublin scrap a 573-home development?

SF Chronicle

San Francisco Bay Area dethroned as most unaffordable housing market in America, report says

SF Chronicle

There’s a new coalition in S.F. trying to reduce homelessness. Can it work?

Fairfield Daily Republic

Caltrans to limit traffic on Rio Vista Bridge

Mercury News

How that notorious San Jose pothole is able to defeat Caltrans

East Bay Times

Proposal from GOP lawmakers would cut California gas tax for six months

East Bay Times

Much of Bay Area tops $5 average gas price for first time

Mass Transit

MTC, other area agencies partner to make carpooling more convenient

East Bay Times

Environmental lawsuit jolts downtown San Jose tech campus

Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Sonoma County supervisors deadlock over downtown county campus at former Sears site in Santa Rosa

East Bay Times

East Palo Alto tables, considers diluting controversial tenants’ rights ordinance

East Bay Times

Why has this housing for homeless Oaklanders been sitting empty for months?

SF Chronicle

S.F. supervisor wants to close loophole allowing massive rent increases

SF Chronicle

Oakland developer hasn’t built promised housing. City Council pulls plug

SF Chronicle

Walt Ranch development vote delayed in Napa following protests

SF Chronicle

Can new housing revive San Francisco’s Mid-Market dream?

Government Technology

California Bill Looks to Better Coordinate Bay Area Transit

Mercury News

Here’s why Caltrans isn’t paving freeways while the sun shines: Roadshow

Mercury News

$19 billion: Cost of high speed rail’s Bay Area link surges in latest report, without funding

Mercury News

‘On Day 1, the driving instructor put my son on Highway 17! What was he thinking?’

SF Chronicle

Controversial Oakland housing project at Lake Merritt stalls again

East Bay Times

Lafayette Terraces project hits another delay

Mercury News

Google village in downtown San Jose could achieve $19 billion value

Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Santa Rosa Sears site purchase to come back before the Board of Supervisors

Marin Independent Journal

Sausalito officials probe impact of new housing law

Berkeleyside

Telegraph Avenue redesign gets green light from Berkeley City Council

SF Examiner

S.F.’s plan to tax 40,000 empty homes under scrutiny

CA Public Radio

California’s climate action plans fall behind on equity, sticking instead to boilerplate solutions, new study says

SF Examiner

Watchdog on the water: Group uses drones to monitor the ‘fragile ecosystem’ of the Bay

Mercury News

Newsom hypes 1 millionth electric vehicle sold in California, even if the details are “squishy”

Mercury News

‘Phantom gas tax’ hurts more as prices approach $5 a gallon: Roadshow

Bloomberg

The Radical Roots of Bikesharing

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