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By Damien Newton

7:16 AM PDT on September 17, 2008

State Budget Crisis Threatens Measure R (Bottleneck Blog)
Life Saving Technology Too Expensive for Metrolink (Times)
Paper Wants Fast Tracked Crash Investigation (Star-News)
An Introduction to CA High Speed Rail (Trains Are Awesome)
State Seeking Ban of Texting While Driving a Train (Real Tech News)
House Votes to Loosen Restrictions on Offshore Drilling (NYT)
Biden: Obama Presidency Would Be 'Most Train-Friendly Administration Ever' (Politico)
Hey Wall Street! Anyone Wanna Buy a Rolls? (City Room, Post)

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