Today’s Headlines
San Diego Has Its Own Sales Tax Increase Plans (Union-Tribune) 23 Widening On Price and Ahead of Schedule (Star) Locals Should Be Heard on Foothill Toll Road (Times) Times Reporter Discovers Drawbacks of Greenline Routing (Times) Blogdowntown Looks at Portland Streetcar (Blogdowntown) Security Cameras Coming to Simi Valley Buses (Acorn) Gas Prices Hit New Record, … Continued
9:55 AM PDT on April 21, 2008
- San Diego Has Its Own Sales Tax Increase Plans (Union-Tribune)
- 23 Widening On Price and Ahead of Schedule (Star)
- Locals Should Be Heard on Foothill Toll Road (Times)
- Times Reporter Discovers Drawbacks of Greenline Routing (Times)
- Blogdowntown Looks at Portland Streetcar (Blogdowntown)
- Security Cameras Coming to Simi Valley Buses (Acorn)
- Gas Prices Hit New Record, Even Though There’s a Surplus (Union-Tribune)
- The Promise of Pay-as-You-Drive Insurance (Freakonomics)
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