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By
Joe Linton
8:58 AM PDT on August 18, 2016
- State Funding For Metro Will Decrease Red/Purple Line Wait Times (Curbed)
- Baby Boomers Benefited From Growth, Then Became Anti-Growth (Better Institutions)
- No-Growth Initiative Proponents Grandstand Offer To Halt If Garcetti Reforms (LAT)
- Mentally Ill Woman Jumps From Blue Line Slauson Station, Dies (LAT)
- Police Shoot Man Who Stabbed Two Metro Bus Passengers In Panorama City (LAT)
- Hit-and-Run Driver Crashes Into LAPD Motorcycle In Castaic (LAT)
- Parts Of Three Schools Closed Due To Exide Lead Contamination (LAT)
- Expo Park Soccer Stadium To Break Ground August 23 (Urbanize)
- TRIP Report Quantifies Potholes and Crashes Cost To L.A. Drivers (KPCC, Curbed, SGV Tribune)
- Zoning Excludes Low-Income Families (Brookings)
- Uber To Debut Self-Driving Cars In Pittsburgh This Month (Bloomberg)
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