Today’s Headlines
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8:58 AM PDT on May 18, 2011
- More on Mayor Lee’s Street Improvement Bond Measure (SF Gate, SF Appeal)
- Board of Supes Unanimously Confirms Joél Ramos to SFMTA Board (SF Examiner)
- SFMTA Seeks to Streamline Disciplinary Process for Muni Operators (SF Examiner)
- SFMTA Board Votes to Raise Taxi Fares (SF Examiner, SF Gate, SF Appeal, ABC 7, AP via SacBee)
- Bay Bridge Drivers Will Be Detoured to Speed Up Construction (SF Examiner, Bay Citizen)
- Supes Adopt Measure to Allow Mayor Lee to Return to His Post as City Admin (SF Examiner)
- U.S. Senate Preserves Tax Breaks for Oil Companies (NYT, Politico)
- Civil Grand Jury Rips Parkmerced Redevelopment on Tenant Issues (SF Examiner, SF Gate, SFBG)
- Facebook Seeks to Mitigate Employee Car Commutes in Move to Menlo Park (Mercury News)
- Why Aren’t We Building ‘Emotionally Connected’ Cities? (Infrastructurist)
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Aaron was the editor of Streetsblog San Francisco from January 2012 until October 2015. He joined Streetsblog in 2010 after studying rhetoric and political communication at SF State University and spending a semester in Denmark.
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