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By Damien Newton

10:41 AM PDT on August 22, 2023

Metro Wants Your Help to Rename West Santa Ana Branch Line (The Source, Daily News)
L.A. Moves Forward With Plan to Purchase Mayfair, Convert to Interim Housing (Urbanize)
Long Beach Wants Feedback on E-Bike, Scooter Share (Press-Telegram)
More on bill that would have hiked bridge tolls to pay for transit (SF Gate, Mercury News)
Hilary News Stack:
- No Deaths in Southland (Daily News)
- “Washed Out Freeways and Flooded Streets” Were the Worst of It (LAT)
- Hundreds Trapped in Washed Out Death Valley (LAT)
- Dodger Stadium, and Its Parking Lots, Were Not Under Water (LAT)
- Here’s a Rain Map (Daily News)
- Images of Lake Powell Before and After (Newsweek)
- Storm Continues North (Reuters)

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