Tag: mayor
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An LA-led, public-private partnership pitches a $150B green infrastructure package to Congress
Representatives from the government and the utility handling the ability of Los Angeles are suggesting a infrastructure package worth roughly $150 billion centered upon the broad electrification of business and transportation. Drafted by the Los Angeles-based public-private Transportation Electrification Partnership, also a collaboration between the Office of Mayor Eric Garcetti, Southern California Edison, the Los…
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The Station: Starship expands, AutoX opens up shop and a big moment for e-bikes
Hello and welcome back to The Station, a weekly newsletter specializing in the future (and present) of transportation. I’m host, Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter in TechCrunch. Everything you is a version of this newsletter, which is emailed every weekend. If you would like to subscribe, go here and click The Station. The transportation market…
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Los Angeles investors and entrepreneurs launch PledgeLA, a diversity and inclusion program
In an effort to improve diversity and inclusion efforts and civic participation between the growing technology industry in Los Angeles along with the community which surrounds it, over 80 venture capitalists and entrepreneurs joined the city’s mayor, Eric Garcetti, along with also the non-profit Annenberg Foundation to announce PledgeLA. The initiative is 1 way where…