NewsWatch: Sustainable Communities -- Movie of San Francisco One Week Before 1906 Quake

Connecticut Prepares for Electric Cars
Connecticut's Electric Vehicles Infrastructure Council is examining the best ways the state can build a charging infrastructure. The council issued its final report in September on how to prepare Connecticut for the arrival of plug-in cars this year and in 2011. Government Fleet

Movie of San Francisco's Market Street Taken One Week Before 1906 Earthquake
Take a trip down Market Street, San Francisco in April 1906, just one week before the famous earthquake destroyed the city. CBS News

Texas Cities Dominate Best-Performing Cities Index
For the second year in a row, Texas metropolitan areas -- led by the Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood metropolitan area -- dominated the Milken Institute's Best-Performing Cities Index. The results show that a business-friendly climate, a vibrant tech industry, and little exposure to the housing bubble kept Texas on stable ground during the economic downturn. Milken

MIT Unveils Portable Solar-Powered Water Desalination System
A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s  (MIT) Field and Space Robotic Laboratory (FSRL) has designed a new solar-powered water desalination system to provide drinking water to disaster zones and disadvantaged parts of the planet. MIT News

How Cities Can Save Money: Merge
Gus Morrison, who served five terms as mayor of Fremont, Calif., is pushing a plan that would take Fremont off the map. Morrison, 75, has proposed merging Newark, Union City and Fremont, plus the local sanitation and water districts, into a new city with a new yet-to-be-determined name as a way to save money. San Francisco Chronicle