Today’s Headlines
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9:01 AM PDT on July 18, 2013
- Trayvon March Reaches Beverly Hills (Daily News)
- “Flash Mob” Hits Hollywood While LAPD at Demonstrations Elsewhere (LAT)
- No Lasting Damage to L.A. River from This Weekend’s I-5 Tanker Crash (KCET, LAT)
- State Taxpayers, Not Trucking Company, Paying for Cleanup. Hope Federal Taxpayers Might Foot Bill (KPCC)
- Unscientific Poll on 710 Big Dig Shows Two-Thirds in Opposition (KPCC)
- Yup, It Was the Buy-America Provisions That Sunk XPress Loan Application (Daily News)
- Metro Bragging About Public Private Partnership Plan for Freeway Expansion (Planetizen, Planning Report)
- Gate Latching Continues at Metro Rail (The Source)
- High Desert Corridor Public Meeting Online for Viewing (US Stream)
- Last of the New Metrolink Cars Arrive (Transit Coalition)
- Steve Hymon Completely Agrees with Me That L.A. Newspaper Group Stinks on Bikes (The Source)
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