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Times Editorial Blasts Molina Over Sales Tax Obstructionism

By Damien Newton | Jul 11, 2008 | No Comments

Maybe there are some Times’ editors reading Streetsblog? In an editorial in today’s newspaper, the Los Angeles Times takes a whack at the politicians who’s local posturing endangers Metro’s half-cent sales tax proposal, especially Gloria Molina. The Times sums up it’s excellent editorial: What Molina and the other obstructionists fail to grasp is that if […]

Senator Romero Won’t Support Anything Without Guarantees for SGV

By Damien Newton | Jul 2, 2008 | 15 Comments

Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero is taking a stand. Romero tells the Times that if she doesn’t get she wants for San Gabriel Valley, at no extra cost to her constituents, she’ll vote to make sure all of LA County is denied the opportunity to to vote to increase everyone’s transit options. The Senator may […]

Daily News Repeats Others’ Arguments Against HOT Lanes

By Damien Newton | May 7, 2008 | 2 Comments

Sign Announcing HOT Lanes on SR-167 Outside of Seattle Metro took another shot to the chin this morning when the Daily News joined the congestion pricing pile-on with its unimaginative editorial, "HOV lane conversion plan is a taxpayer rip-off." Honestly? The Daily News should have just reprinted the Tim Rutton’s Op/Ed from the other week […]

Paper: We Love Our Cars! Defeat the Climate Change Bills!

By Damien Newton | Apr 18, 2008 | 9 Comments

From the mouths of college students… Over the last couple of weeks, we read a lot of dumb newspaper opinion pieces about Mike Feuer’s legislation that would allow LA County to place a measure on the fall ballot to place a tax on vehicles that emit the most greenhouse gases. Of all the dumb reasons […]

Desert Dispatch and OC Register Add to Anti-Feuer Editorials

By Damien Newton | Apr 8, 2008 | 6 Comments

As we get closer to next week’s hearing on Mike Feuer’s transportation funding legislation, you can expect to see more and more piling on as newspapers trip over themselves to see who can write the worst editorial. So far, the Press Enterprise’s "Daily Dude" still has that distinction. So far, LA Streetsblog has dissected three […]

Daily Breeze Joins the Anti-Feuer Editorial Movement

By Damien Newton | Apr 7, 2008 | 10 Comments

This Has Nothing to Do with Global Warming Slightly closer to home than San Bernadino, the Daily Breeze also seems offended that Assemblyman Mike Feuer would make a link between global warming, air pollution and congestion and that he would actually try to do something about it. Here’s a novel way to combat global warming: Get […]

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