Thursday’s Headlines
More on Choudri's ouster coming later today.
10:49 AM PDT on October 29, 2026
- Choudri Out at High-Speed Rail (Calmatters, Chron, KCRA)
- California Traffic Fatalities By the Numbers (Fresno Bee)
- “In five years, Los Angeles’s budget grew 34%. The number of sidewalks it repaired fell 33%.” (XTown LA)
- Political Hit? Racial Profiling? Why Just One? Fresno PD Grapples with False DUI Stop (Fresnoland)
- Long Beach Moving Car Lanes Out of Parks (LB Post)
- Are We Going to Get the Idaho Stop? (CalBike)
- Even More on Bay Area Measures More on Muni Measure (GGExpress, SFStandard)
- Metrolink Holds Off On Cuts, Decision Expected Nov. 13 (SC Signal)
- Californians Still Buying EVs (SacBee)
- More on Trump’s Plans to Pollute the Coast (Santa Barbara Independent)
- LA CM Yaroslavsky Motion Supports Do-It-Yourself Crosswalks (Reddit)
- Trump Overturns Biden-Era Ruling on Oil and Gas Production, Leading to More Methane, a Powerful Greenhouse Gas (AP)
- Newsom Doubles Down on Methane Tracking (Press Release)
- L.A. City Bans Oil Drilling, Again (LAT)
- Flooding Eases Across the State, for Now (OC Reg)
- Major Storm Hits SoCal on Halloween (Union-Trib)
- Trump Living the 1950’s American Dream (Grist)
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