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Image from today’s Sesame Street Who Will Pay for the Gulf Disaster? Not Consumers of Gasoline (WaPo) Two Decades After Valdez, Feds and Drillers Completely Unprepared for Next Big Spill (NYT) Coastal Commission Rejects Venice RV Restrictions (LAT) Hollywood and Vine Needs a Bike Station (Soap Box) Goldberg: Deep Horizon Oil Disaster Not That Big … Continued

By Damien Newton

8:53 AM PDT on June 15, 2010

Image from today’s Sesame Street

Who Will Pay for the Gulf Disaster? Not Consumers of Gasoline (WaPo)
Two Decades After Valdez, Feds and Drillers Completely Unprepared for Next Big Spill (NYT)
Coastal Commission Rejects Venice RV Restrictions (LAT)
Hollywood and Vine Needs a Bike Station (Soap Box)
Goldberg: Deep Horizon Oil Disaster Not That Big a Deal (LAT)
Birdman’s Hit and Run Trial Delayed Again (Bikeside)
Etiquette for the Brit Transit Rider (BBC)
Also from Across the Pond, What is SMIDSY (Biking in L.A.)
Maybe Its Time to Take Charlie Sheen’s Car Away…for Everyone’s Sake (LAT)
When a CHP Officer is Killed in a Traffic Crash, It’s Taken a Lot More Seriously (Daily News)

Damien Newton

Today's Headlines

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