Today’s Headlines
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8:53 AM PDT on May 27, 2011
- BART Delayed After Man in Wheelchair Falls on Tracks at Powell Station (SF Examiner, Coco Times)
- BART Approves Taser Stun Guns for All of Its Police Officers (SF Examiner, CBS 2, Coco Times)
- BART Board Moves to End Secret Committee Meetings (Coco Times)
- Coco Times Editorial: BART Board Must Take Quick Action to Rectify Serious Mistakes
- Bill to Add San Jose, Oakland Seats on MTC Passes Assembly (Mercury News)
- Tea Party Members Troll ‘Plan Bay Area’ Meeting, Call Smart Growth ‘New World Order’ (Bay Citizen)
- How Has 511 Helped You? MTC Offers iPad for Best Video Submission (SF Examiner)
- Mission Local Chronicles a Community Planning Meeting
- More on the SFPD Comments on the Ineffectiveness of the Sit/Lie Law (SFBG, Bay Citizen)
- Caltrain, BART, VTA Running Sunday Schedules on Memorial Day (Mercury News)
- Studies: Long Commutes Cause Obesity, Neck Pain, Loneliness, Divorce, Stress, and Insomnia (Slate)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
Editor’s note: We’re taking Monday off for Memorial Day. See you back here on Tuesday.
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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