As the Bay Area’s largest city and a booming tech hub, San Jose is no stranger to the pressures of rising rents, gridlock traffic, and pollution. That’s why it’s so exciting that the city will...
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12/08/2015
Last Thursday I presented at a Caltrans conference in Los Angeles. On my Southwest flight home, I grabbed a second-row window seat...next to Governor Jerry Brown.
I thanked him for his...
12/03/2015
It’s a wonderful feeling to roll my wheelchair out of an afternoon concert with the San Francisco Symphony knowing accessible rail transit is only blocks away. The Bay Area pioneered disabled...
12/02/2015
I won’t mince words – Oakland is in a housing affordability crisis of epic proportions. And with some of the highest rents in the country and Uber’s impending arrival, tensions around Oakland’s...
12/01/2015
“City sidewalks, busy sidewalks, dressed in holiday style…”
One of the benefits of living in a thriving urban area is the incredible rich calendar of events that beckon us at the holidays. The...
11/30/2015
In the United States, we have a day for giving thanks. We have two for getting deals. Tomorrow, we have #GivingTuesday, a day dedicated to giving back.
#GivingTuesday comes on the heels of the two...
11/25/2015
“Sustainability means simultaneously meeting our current economic, environmental, and community needs, while also ensuring that we are not jeopardizing the ability of future generations to meet their...
11/24/2015
Winter is coming, and with luck, the predictions of a strong El Niño year will come true and end our multi-year drought. Those rainy days are notorious for causing morning slowdowns on Bay Area roads...
11/19/2015
This blog was originally posted on PolicyLink's Equity Blog here.
Last month, I attended PolicyLink's 2015 Equity Summit, a three-day conference drawing advocates from Ferguson to New...
11/11/2015
Turn on the radio on any given morning in the Bay Area, and you’ll hear one word over and over again: traffic.
This year, San Francisco was named the second most-congested city in the United...
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