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ICE, bike-walk funding, SB 79, potholes, Metro, armadillos, housing, car-nage, and more

By Joe Linton

9:52 AM PST on February 24, 2026

Vermont Avenue potholes - photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog

ICE Terror Continues, Including In City of Bell (L.A. Taco)
- ICE Training Is Deficient and Broken (KTLA)
LA Keeps Bike/Walk Grant Funding, Delays Projects (LAist)
Today, City Committee Considers SB79 Transit-Housing Response (Urbanize)
Mayor Bass Announces Pothole Repair Surge (Sentinel)
Meet Metro’s New Governance Committee (The Source, @linton.joe)
SBLA Hunts Armadillos (Bluesky)
Public Press Syndicates SBLA Large Asphalt Repair Story
L.A. City CHIP Housing Plan At 1 Year: Slow Going (Future is L.A.)
L.A. Podcast On Paving, Flooding, Olympics and More
Metro Train Kills Person Who Fell Onto 7th St. Station Tracks (KCAL, Eastsider)
Carnage: Indio Wrong-Way Driver Dies in Crash, Injures Another (KCAL)
- Lake Elsinore Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Pedestrian (KCAL)
- LB Motorcyclist Killed in 405 Freeway Crash (LB Post)
- Redlands Driver Plows Into Group of People, Injuring Four (KTLA, NBC4)
- Lynwood Driver Crashes Off 105 Freeway Into Parked Cars (KABC, KCAL)
- One Transported to Hospital from Newhall Hwy 14 Crash (SC Signal)
- Santa Clarita Driver Overturns Crashing Into Cars and Pole (SC Signal)
- Driver Injured In South Pasadena Car Fire (So. Pasadenan)

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Joe Linton

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