Today’s Headlines
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8:28 AM PDT on May 4, 2011
- Metro Releases Budget, Schedules Hearing for 5/18 (The Source, Daily News)
- LAT: Suburban Flight Gives SoCal a Chance to Grow Smarter
- The Paper of Record Also Notes There’s a Controversy About a Leimert Park Station (LAT)
- Happy 72nd Birthday, Union Station (Primary Sources)
- “Some” Question Tax Breaks for Downtown Hotel (LAT)
- Dodgers Advertise the Dodger Shuttle (Twitter)
- The Santa Monica Festival Looks Really Bikey (Pac. Swell)
- GOOD Demolishes the Argument That You Can Drill Your Way to Lower Gas Prices
- Architects Look Forward to Day When Cars Can Replace Bees As Pollinators (NY News)
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