Today’s Headlines

• More on withheld HSR funding (Smart Cities Dive)
• Pasadena moves to reclaim the unfinished stub of the 710 freeway (Pasadena Now, Pasadena Star News)
• Bay Area is “reopening” but transit ridership is slow to recover (KTVU)
• LA County takes first (baby) steps to end oil drilling in urban areas (LA Times)
• Kern County calls in the National Guard to help with COVID surge (Bakersfield.com)
• How urban settings exhaust people (Psychology Today)
• Paris is liberating itself from cars (Slate)
• Census: U.S. government aid during pandemic helped reduce poverty (Reuters)
• Oh great. Climate change may increase cases of dangerous Valley Fever (Grist)

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