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08.26.2008

Editorial Calls California's SB 375 a ''Breakthrough'' on Regional Planning (Smart Growth Online)

For decades, California has in vain ''struggled with how to marry its environmental values with its transportation needs while honoring the traditions of local control and building adequate housing,'' with builders finding sprawl easier and cheaper, commuters jamming the roads, the state trying to ease traffic and air pollution, and some local residents using the California Environmental Quality ...

08.25.2008

A major new effort to eliminate California's suburban sprawl (Pleasanton Tri-Valley Herald)

For 30 years, as California's growing population led to sprawling suburbs, traffic jams and fewer farms, attempts to craft statewide laws to stop it have failed again and again.

08.28.2008

Traffic patrols to increase over weekend, police chief says (Knoxville News Sentinel)

Unlike the cacophonous Boomsday fireworks celebration above Neyland Drive and Volunteer Landing, Knoxville Police Chief Sterling P. Owen IV is hoping for relative quiet on the city's streets and thoroughfares during the upcoming Labor Day weekend.

08.26.2008

LAPD officer in trouble with the law (WIVB Buffalo)

CORONA, Calif. (CBS) - An off duty Los Angeles Police Officer may be in trouble with the law after shooting a man he said was trying to kidnap his child.

08.26.2008

Gay-Marriage Foes Mobilize for Ban in California (The Advocate)

Michael Bumgarner says he's never campaigned for a political cause before, but his strong opposition to same-sex marriage has prompted him to join thousands of volunteers going door-to-door in support of a ballot initiative that would ban gay nuptuals in California.