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Speed cameras: California’s answer to rising traffic deaths?

Trina Newman-Townsend’s girls packed into her Ford Flex after delivering gifts, turkeys and hams to a Los Angeles shelter. It was Christmas Eve, and the recently wed 62-year-old pastor — mother of two, foster mother of five and grandmother of 11 — had a pajama gift exchange to attend later that night.

CALIFORNIA BANS WATERING GRASS AT CERTAIN BUSINESSES

A bill signed into law Friday by Governor Gavin Newsom will now ban certain businesses from watering its grass in an effort to reduce water usage.

The bill is modeled after the State placed similar rules on commercial, industrial and government agencies from using drinking water for grass deemed “non-functional” in 2022.

California poised for big climate moves after Newsom backs new laws

The governor signed 75% of the major environmental bills that lawmakers sent to his desk. As for vetoes, Newsom cited enforcement, cost concerns.

California is set to take major swings at boosting renewable energy, reining in corporate emissions, safeguarding wild places and ensuring livability amid worsening climate change after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed most of the environment-related legislation lawmakers sent his way this session.

 

Slow Down, SoCal: Speed Cameras Are Coming to LA, Long Beach, Glendale

The streets are too fast and too furious, California lawmakers say.

“For too long, we have referred to most of these deaths as 'accidents' to sweep under the rug the uncomfortable truth: these deaths are preventable,” Assembly member Laura Friedman of Burbank, one of the bill's authors, said in a statement. “Slowing cars down is imperative to saving lives.”