Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

High Speed Rail Funding Measure Passes Assembly, Senate Vote Today (Capitol Alert) Bullet Train “Likely to Pass” Despite Divided Senate (Merc-News) Bill Now Includes Local Control Provisions (Capitol Alert) Silicon Valley Paper Warns Senators “Not to Cave to HSR Sweetners” (Silicon Valley Mercury) Meanwhile, Villaraigosa Still on 30/10 aka America Fast Forward Victory Lap (Patch, … Continued

By Damien Newton

8:37 AM PDT on July 6, 2012

High Speed Rail Funding Measure Passes Assembly, Senate Vote Today (Capitol Alert)
Bullet Train “Likely to Pass” Despite Divided Senate (Merc-News)
Bill Now Includes Local Control Provisions (Capitol Alert)
Silicon Valley Paper Warns Senators “Not to Cave to HSR Sweetners” (Silicon Valley Mercury)
Meanwhile, Villaraigosa Still on 30/10 aka America Fast Forward Victory Lap (Patch, LA Observed)
All Those Trips to Washington Paid Off (KCET)
Boxer, Zev, Along for the Ride (NBC 4, Daily News)
Valley Schools Get $1.7 Million in Caltrans Safe Routes Funding (Daily News)
SGV Still Fuming Over No Gold Line Extension in Measure R+ (SGV Biz Journal)
Epstein: Orange Line Gives Us One More Reason to Leave Your Car (HuffPo)
If Your Child Dies in Car Crash without a Car Seat, You Could Lose Other Kids (LAT)
Police Make 700 DUI Arrests in LA County Over Last Week (Daily News)
Civil Rights Groups Start Prepping for 2014 Transportation Bill (Streetsblog Cap. Hill)
Had Enough? Long Beach Readies to Fight 405 Expansion….in Orange County (Gazettes)

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