Today’s Headlines
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9:05 AM PDT on May 21, 2012
- MTC and ABAG Approve Bay Area Smart Growth and Transpo Funding Plan (SFGate, CoCo Times)
- Sena Putra, 47, Killed by Driver in SoMa Thursday Had Just Become Citizen (SFGate, SF Weekly)
- SFMTA Board Nominee Cristina Rubke Sails Through Supes Committee (City Insider)
- SFMTA Officials Stand by Re-Defined “Muni Minute” (Bay Citizen)
- Muni’s Overtime-Cutting Efforts Go Into Service Cuts on F-Line Streetcars and Cable Cars (SF Examiner)
- Muni Uses Federal Funds for Security Cameras It Doesn’t Use (Matier & Ross)
- Attorney: Driver “Needs to Be Held Accountable” for Injuring Three Peds on Treasure Island (Injury Board)
- North Beach Neighbors Raise Money for Homeless Man Hurt in Hit and Run (SF Weekly)
- Lawyer Spencer Freeman Smith Arrested in Fatal Hit-and-Run of Dublin Cyclist (SFGate, Mercury News)
- ABC 7‘s Controversy-Seeking Report on Parklets Pretty Much Shoots Itself Down
- Driver Filming Motorcyclists on Hwy 101 Hits Two of Them, Then Gets Assaulted (SFGate)
- CAHSRA Policy to Purge E-Mails Draws Critics’ Ire (Bay Citizen)
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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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