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A street vendor in the piñata district holds up two cochinitos. Street vendor permit fees dropped from nearly $300 to $27 this past weekend. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

  • New lower permit fees for street vendors - lowered from $291 to $27 - took effect on Sunday (NBCLA)
  • Metro gets rolling on San Fernando Valley light rail construction (DailyNews)
  • Metro is taking public comment about its plan to extend the K line up through Hollywood (LAist)
  • Man found dead inside Metro tunnel near Studio City appears to have been electrocuted (KCAL; NBCLA)
  • The NYT looks at the nationwide drop in 'traffic' enforcement (NYT)
  • 14-year-old boy and 3 others shot, wounded in South L.A. while walking across the street at E. 51st and Avalon (LAT; KCAL)
  • Newsom calls on Oakland to allow more police chases, stop suspects from ‘fleeing with impunity’ (LAT); See our previous coverage on the dangers of expanding pursuits (SBLA)
  • With Olympics now underway in Paris, local outlets ask if L.A. is ready (NBCLA, ABC7, CBSLA); Sen. Alex Padilla: $200M in the works for bus leasing program ahead of LA2028 (Spectrum)
  • How campaign funds and charitable donations help Big Oil wield power in Sacramento (LAT)
  • Earth just sweltered through the hottest day ever recorded (LAist).
  • Massive forest fires aren't helping: The ‘extraordinary’ growth of California’s largest fire raises alarms - it could burn for months (LAT)
  • Landmark study finds exposure to wildfire smoke increases risk of dementia more than other forms of pollution (LAT); Wildfires are also very bad for watersheds and drinking water (WaPo)

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