Today’s Headlines
Tru Beats Weiss (Times, Daily News) Koretz Edges Vahedi for Fifth District Council Race (Daily News) Five of Six State Ballot Measures Fail, Gov. With No Further Ways to Cut Transit (Times) Didn’t the Daily News Do This Article Already? Businesses Lose on Orange Line Extension (Times) Balboa and Zelzah Ave. Speed Limit Increases Stalled … Continued
7:19 AM PDT on May 20, 2009
- Tru Beats Weiss (Times, Daily News)
- Koretz Edges Vahedi for Fifth District Council Race (Daily News)
- Five of Six State Ballot Measures Fail, Gov. With No Further Ways to Cut Transit (Times)
- Didn’t the Daily News Do This Article Already? Businesses Lose on Orange Line Extension (Times)
- Balboa and Zelzah Ave. Speed Limit Increases Stalled Until 6/19 in Council (Daily News)
- Police Stage Mock Crash to Show Seriousness of Safe Driving (Burbank Leader)
- Grist Breaks Down Obama Admin Mileage Standards (via Streetsblog.net)
- Suburbanites Long for City Amenities (NM Business Weekly)
- Texting While Driving Is Deadly, and Over 25 Percent of Motorists Do It (Gadgetwise)
- Car Columnist Skewers Honda Hybrid, Calls for More Hydrogen Research (Times)
- Gas Prices Creeping Up as Summer Approaches (Pasadena Star News)
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