January 25, 2019

Top Political News

• Trump announces deal for government to reopen for three weeks, ending longest shutdown; no money for his border wall.
• Trump Adviser Roger Stone Charged as Part of Mueller Investigation.
• During Shutdown, Mayors Show What Bipartisanship Looks Like
• Momentum for earmarks grows with Dem majority.
• The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Energy, Natural Resources, and Agriculture

• Walden champions forest-thinning bill.
• Interior proposal to limit records requests draws challenge
• Group asks watchdog to investigate recall of furloughed Interior workers
• Shutdown shoves aside budget, lands and tax bills
• Cities Are Tucking Climate Change Fixes Into New Laws
• Most Americans now worry about climate change—and want to fix it.

Indian Affairs

• Trump exempts most tribes from Medicaid work rules
• Sen. Murray visits Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe to discuss shutdown impact. K5News
• Native American Leader: ‘A Wall Is Not The Answer.’
• Shutdown Poses Risk to Health Care.

Labor

• Los Angeles teachers approve contract, end strike
• High court asked to settle question of loss causation
• A State Pension Proposal That Promises Near-Term Savings, But Higher Future Costs
• Divisions Over Trump Complicate Unions’ Response to Government Shutdown.

Taxation, Trade, & Defense

• Mayors Get an Update on Opportunity Zone Rules
• Los Angeles and Other Cities Stash Money to Prepare for a Recession
• No Sweeping Free Trade Deal, Brussels Tells Washington
• Trump won’t soften hardline on China to make trade deal: advisers.
• China Regulator Defends Made-in-China 2025, Hopes for Trade Deal

Technology

• Are Electric Cars Only for the Rich? Sacramento Is Challenging That Notion
• Lyft, Uber reduce bus use 12.7 percent in SF, says study
• Automation and Artificial Intelligence: How machines are affecting people and places.

Transportation

• Congress’s new transportation leader wants to make a deal
• Will There Be an Infrastructure Package This Year?
• APTA calls on Trump, Congress to open USDOT
• ‘We’re done’: Shutdown strikes small, midsize and rural transit.
• L.A. may charge drivers by the mile, adding freeway tolls to cut congestion
• U.S. trucking industry reports highest annual truck tonnage gain in 20 years.
• Stuck and Stressed: The Health Costs of Traffic.
• America’s Most Dangerous Roads for Pedestrians