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Today’s Headlines

White House Expands Automaker Bailout With $5B for Parts Suppliers (NYT) Rosendahl Hosts Meeting on Del Rey Traffic Issues (Curbed) Full Transcript of President’s Q and A, Includes Vague Talk of Traffic (LAist) Open Left Diarist Breaks Down the New HUD-DOT Partnership Broken Sidewalk Compares Ped Crossings in Seattle, England, and Louisville (via Streetsblog.net) Canadians … Continued

By Damien Newton

8:51 AM PDT on March 20, 2009

White House Expands Automaker Bailout With $5B for Parts Suppliers (NYT)
Rosendahl Hosts Meeting on Del Rey Traffic Issues (Curbed)
Full Transcript of President’s Q and A, Includes Vague Talk of Traffic (LAist)
Open Left Diarist Breaks Down the New HUD-DOT Partnership
Broken Sidewalk Compares Ped Crossings in Seattle, England, and Louisville (via Streetsblog.net)
Canadians Come to Santa Monica and Venice and Fall in Love with Beach Biking (Calgary Metro)
Grey’s Anatomy Star in Three-Car Crash in Hollywood (Daily News)
Woman Hit By Car, Dragged Inside, and Whisked Off (ABC 7, Daily Breeze)

Damien Newton

Today's Headlines

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