Today’s Headlines

10:12 AM PST on January 10, 2012

Mayor Ed Lee Appoints Christina Olague as D5 Supervisor (City Insider, SF Examiner)
SFMTA Looks at Charging for Disabled Placard Use at Parking Meters (SF Examiner)
Tea Partiers Interrupt Plan Bay Area Workshop in Santa Rosa (Press Democrat)
BART Board Member Franklin Steps Down to Run for Oakland City Council (SF Examiner)
SMART Construction Begins Today (Marin IJ)
USDOT Recommends Full Funding for BART Extension to San Jose (Mercury News, CBS 5)
Peter Calthorpe Op-Ed: Why California Needs High-Speed Rail (SFGate)
Dianne Feinstein Urges Moving CA HSR to Caltrans (SacBee)
Palo Alto Road Diet Plan on California Avenue Challenged Again (PA Online)

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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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