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AIRPORT WARS: Assembly Transportation Committee Chairman Richard...

By Jeffrey A. Perlman and Lisa Mascaro
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AIRPORT WARS: Assembly Transportation Committee Chairman Richard Katz (D-Panorama City) is announcing his support today for a monorail that would link L.A. and Palmdale, boosting plans to build an international airport there. . . . Orange County supervisors favor an airport at George Air Force Base in San Bernardino County. Katz’s move “concerns me,” says Orange County transportation chief Dana W. Reed, “because an airport in Palmdale does nothing to solve the serious airport congestion problem here.”

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Lisa Mascaro

Lisa Mascaro previously covered Congress in Washington, D.C., for the Los Angeles Times. She left in February 2018. A Los Angeles-area native, she has reported across Southern California, edited, traveled the States and worked in Texas. While the Washington correspondent for the Las Vegas Sun, she contributed as the paper won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. An economics and political science graduate of UC Santa Barbara, she also studied in Budapest, Hungary.

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