Today’s Headlines
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9:05 AM PDT on August 21, 2013
- 4 Dead in Hit and Runs in L.A. Last Weekend (L.A. Weekly)
- Reporter Michael Hastings Thought He Was Invincible; He Wasn’t (LA Times)
- Brown Defiant, CAHSR Construction Continues Despite Judge’s Ruling (Daily Journal, CBS)
- L.A. Lifts Curbside Gardening Ban, Snoop Lion Wants Kids to Garden (CBS2)
- Union Station Master Plan Comment Period Extended (The Source)
- A Review of Santa Monica’s Tour Da Arts (Santa Monica Next)
- UCLA: If Everyone Were Like Us, There Would Be No Car Congestion (UCLA News)
- Pasadena Plans Crackdown on Texting While Driving (CBS2)
- L.A. and Four Other Cities Buy Half the World’s Electric Cars (Wired)
- Cyclelicious Digs Up a 1922 Article Showing Early Days of AAA Pedestrian-Blaming Campaign
- LA County Wants to Turn a Parking Lot Into a Park, Culver City Objects (Culver City Times)
- LA Wants to Know if Your Apartment Will Pancake in the Next Earthquake (LA Times)
- The City by the Bay is Officially Begrimed by Bike Share Stations (SF Streetsblog)
- San Francisco Bike Thief Nailed With Flying Ice Cube (SF Streetsblog)
- Protected Bike Lanes Could Have Saved a Cyclist From a Vehicular Assault (NBC Chicago, Storify)
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