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Phoenix: Signs Will Show Where Future LRT is Going
Arizona Republic
Mayor Greg Stanton calls the revived 3.2-mile extension of Metro light rail into north Phoenix a sign of the rebounding economy. Now those driving along the route will have their own signs that change is coming...
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National: Can We Protect Workers and Innovation?
National Journal Transportation Experts
With Labor Day here, now seems as good a time as any to revisit a constant tension: how to protect infrastructure jobs without restricting innovation...
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Bay Area: Google's Brin Supporting Local Retail
Wall Street Journal (via Curbed SF)
Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin has quietly become a power broker in this Silicon Valley city, in a bid to beautify and transform its sleepy downtown...
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International: How Digital Maps Are Mapping Us
Guardian UK (via @tdechant)
Digital maps on smartphones are brilliantly useful tools, but what sort of information do they gather about us - and how do they shape the way we look at the world?..
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Los Angeles: Monrovia's Transit Village Setback
Pasadena Star News
The city and its former Redevelopment Agency have been slapped with a $106 million lawsuit from a developer alleging officials violated a deal for a planned 80-acre transit-oriented development near the future Gold Line station. ..
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Bay Area: Facebook's New Campus Gets Own Main Street
Los Angeles Times
New Facebook campus in Menlo Park is out in the boondocks, so the company is building its own Main Street to cater to employees and attract bright Silicon Valley minds...
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Los Angeles: LA River Lives Again
Guardian UK (via @carterrubin)
A scorching morning in the San Fernando valley and I am driving up and down Balboa Boulevard, parks and fields either side of the motorway, lost. The talking GPS on my dashboard has lapsed into silence, defeated by an arcane destination with no zip code...
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Twin Cities: Big Boxes at a Crossroads
Minneapolis Star Tribune
When two Kmart stores were slated to close in New Hope and White Bear Lake late last year, each city took to the news with decidedly different strategies...
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San Francisco: Renters Get Boot with Rate Hike
San Francisco Chronicle (via @murphstahoe)
Dana-Lee Smirin has rented a house in San Francisco's Dolores Park neighborhood since 2008 and considered it "a haven of stability" as she battles Hodgkin's lymphoma and the aftermath of a car accident...
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