Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Elections

Signs of support for L.A. City Council District candidate Joe Bray Ali, whose race remains too close to call. Photo: Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

L.A. Election Wrap-Up: Joe Bray-Ali, and Measures S and H

By Joe Linton | Mar 9, 2017 | No Comments

Good news in the passage of Measure H and the defeat of Measure S, while the L.A. City Council race between Gil Cedillo and Joe Bray-Ali remains too close to call definitively.

Election? Oh, Right. We Also Voted on Transportation Taxes in California

By Melanie Curry | Nov 9, 2016 | 4 Comments

There is some good election news today, believe it or not. Some of the transportation sales tax measures we’ve been writing about ad nauseum look like they will pass, even with some mail-in ballots still to be counted. The vote counts listed below are from the local county election sites, most of which were updated […]

VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE and Don’t Forget to Vote Today if You Haven’t Yet

By Melanie Curry | Nov 8, 2016 | No Comments

Here’s where to look up your polling place, in case you have somehow forgotten. Hopefully you’ve marked up your sample ballot, though, and will take it with you. If you haven’t made up your mind on your local measures, endorsement guides are available from Bike the Vote L.A., SPUR, The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, BikeEastBay, […]

VTA Measure B’s Bloated Highway Expansions Leave Transit Unfunded

By Andrew Boone | Oct 25, 2016 | No Comments

This article is part of Streetsblog’s coverage of transportation sales tax measures throughout the state. There are a total of fourteen such initiatives on the November ballot, including Measure M in Los Angeles, Measures V and L in Merced and Stanislaus counties, Sacramento’s Measure B, and Contra Costa’s Measure X. We have also covered other Bay […]

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Contra Costa County Transportation Sales Tax Measure X Pleases Some

By Melanie Curry | Oct 20, 2016 | 3 Comments

Contra Costa County voters are considering whether to tax themselves to pay for transportation, and the plan accompanying the measure has a few potentially game-changing aspects. That doesn’t mean that sustainable transportation advocates all support it, however. Measure X, like most of the other county measures on November ballots, is a thirty-year ½ cent sales […]

Transportation Sales Tax Measures on the Ballot: Sacramento’s Measure B

By Melanie Curry | Oct 14, 2016 | No Comments

Sales taxes may not the best way to fund transportation, but there are fifteen new sales tax measures on November ballots in California. Streetsblog has already written about similar measures in Los Angeles and the Central Valley, and will be covering Bay Area ones in the coming days. Here, we take a look at one […]

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