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8:24 AM PDT on September 17, 2009

    • City Council Approves Plan for Layoffs and Furloughs (Times)
    • Suit to Slow Bullet Train Stopped (Curbed)
    • Feds Decide to Burn, I mean Fund LA-LV Maglev Study for, $45 Million (Times)
    • Amtrak to Bend Over Backwards for Gun-Carrying Passengers, Thanks to Senate Vote (DC Examiner)
    • Mar Vista Goes Green (Green LA Girl)
    • Moving Towards a 24-Hour Broadway, a 7-11 Opens (blogdowntown)
    • How Do You Bring Opera to the People? Stage It in the Street (Brooklyn Eagle)
    • Meet Valley College's Winona Rydas (Valley Star)

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