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Hunter Owens

@hunterowens.net
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los angeles-area resident, your friendly state transportation policy bureaucrat, architecture, tacos.

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 29/09/2026
cannot wait to read this
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 28/09/2026
this might be the best business name in all of LA
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 28/09/2026
perhaps, as a they say, a HISTORY OF CONCRETE
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 28/09/2026
beef rendang, salmon head curry, chicken curry, achar, tomato garden chili chutney
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 25/09/2026
you probably don't know what the PAL is, but it shapes every piece of technology that the state of California touches. really great to see this comprehensive report from the Little Hoover commission on how to fix it lhc.ca.gov/report/it-pr...
lhc.ca.gov
IT Project Delivery in California State Government - Little Hoover Commission
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 25/09/2026
details on LA Metro's 220 bus buy from ENC at ~1.5M per bus metro.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...
metro.legistar.com
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 24/09/2026
apparently we are just... never getting the olive to fig improvements that were promised out of the 7th street bikeway capital projects (see: "project is on hold") apps.engineering.lacity.gov/uprs/report/...
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 24/09/2026
welcome to the drip era in cargo bikes theradavist.com/omnium-carha...
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 23/09/2026
obviously a grim story but wild that a relatively slow and not in central CBD in parts railroad can be operational profitable www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Brightline Preparing for Bankruptcy Filing as Soon as This Week
Brightline, the struggling Florida private passenger railroad, is laying the groundwork to restructure some of its debt through a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing as soon as this week, according to people...
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 23/09/2026
really good piece in bloomberg showing why tariff inversion is driving stuff _back_ to China www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
bloomberg.com
A $5,000 Bike Shows Why It’s Hard to Build in America
Trump’s tariff regime was meant to bring manufacturing back to America. A $5,000 bicycle shows how his levies are undermining that goal.
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 23/09/2026
Impossible to overstate how much a shot call this was (5!) years ago from @jordanfraade.bsky.social slate.com/business/202...
slate.com
The Best Chance for the Left to Run Cities Again Starts With the Trash
It's worked before.
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 23/09/2026
back at it
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 21/09/2026
extremely excited to see a my childhood mall turn into this
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 20/09/2026
a successful feast
An entire pig roasting

crowd shot
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 16/09/2026
the global economy is actually quite cool, IMO www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
bloomberg.com
‘Like It’s Raining Gold’: The AI Boom’s Unexpected Billionaires
A new class of extreme wealth is emerging from some unlikely corners of the manufacturing sector.
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 16/09/2026
least well kept secret in the US bus market is out, but Solaris is officially trying to make it in the US market magazine.solarisbus.com/en/solaris-b...
magazine.solarisbus.com
SOLARIS BOLDLY ENTERS THE NORTH AMERICAN MARKET - SOLARIS
Solaris is entering a new phase of growth - expanding into the North American market. The company has already received its first orders in the United States.
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 15/09/2026
presented without comment iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 15/09/2026
related, really loved this book about how the New Deal (and specifically, Joseph Kennedy) brought speculators under control and gave citizens sovereignty over wall street
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 15/09/2026
California is _always_ the future, prop 13 edition
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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Records obtained through a FOIA lawsuit shows that despite record number of pregnant women are in detention, ICE has lost count of the number of miscarriages. A Deleted Data/Immigration/Guardian investigations collab
theguardian.com
Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 14/09/2026
how dumb can you be? www.propublica.org/article/dona...
propublica.org
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 13/09/2026
We really lost our opportunity to do Japanese style real estate and railroad development with the Penn Central bankruptcy
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 10/09/2026
counterparty risk rules everything around me www.reuters.com/business/fin...
reuters.com
Capital One and JPMorgan bet that fighting Trump may be safer than settling
As U.S. President Donald Trump pressures institutions he views as adversaries, JPMorgan Chase and Capital One are fighting back. It is a strategy that legal experts and industry sources say may carry ...
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 10/09/2026
NYC moving forward on the IBX without federal funding is really an interesting model (and I'm curious to see what savings they get from not having to deal with new starts delays) nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/09/10/h...
nyc.streetsblog.org
Hochul Pitches IBX Transit-Oriented Housing 'Dream' - Streetsblog New York City
Gov. Kathy Hochul's vision for the proposed IBX light-rail includes a hell of a lot more housing in Brooklyn and Queens.
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 10/09/2026
don't look now but the california grid keeps getting cleaner (and more stable!) insideclimatenews.org/news/1009202...
insideclimatenews.org
How California Is Kicking Its Natural Gas Habit - Inside Climate News
Solar and batteries matter, but they’re not the only reasons for the steep decline in gas-fired electricity.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Say what you will about eating bacon, it's more kosher than apartheid.
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 09/09/2026
the once and future Sacramento A's www.reviewjournal.com/business/bus...
reviewjournal.com
Inside Gaming: Top financial executive for Bally’s Corp. resigns
Bally’s Corp. named George Papanier interim chief financial officer following Mira Mircheva’s resignation. He remains president and serves on the company’s board.
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 08/09/2026
what's old is new again www.wsj.com/personal-fin...
wsj.com
Pensions Were on the Brink of Extinction. Now Companies Are Bringing Them Back.
Some companies are turning to the lost benefit to recruit employees or settle negotiations with labor unions.
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 05/09/2026
anybody know of a English language deep dive on how the tren interubano got promised and built? It’s … very nice although awful first / last minute based on a quick ride
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 02/09/2026
an ess-a-bagel next to a lukin coffee in midtown east is a real Chinese century moment
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 31/08/2026
Back in the only neighborhood in the US you can regularly overhear French on the street: Williamsburg
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 27/08/2026
ISO: Mexico City recs
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 25/08/2026
stop spending your local tax dollars on Michelin and start spending it supporting your local food media, the return on investment is better
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 25/08/2026
the end of summer urge to order more tomato seeds
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 24/08/2026
extremely cool CA job alert - Deputy Director of Enforcement at the California Consumer Privacy Agency (CalPrivacy) calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
calcareers.ca.gov
Deputy Director of Enforcement - Career Executive Assignment (CEA) Level B
Looking to make a difference? Join our strong and mighty workforce. We offer benefits and growth opportunities and impact the lives of millions of Californians.
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 24/08/2026
homemade / homegrown pappa al pomodoro, row seven garleek kimchi, burrata, basil
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 21/08/2026
back at it
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 08/08/2026
nobody told me the government of signapore hands out a Lee Kuan Yew World City prize every few years
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 07/08/2026
no idea the Supreme Court of Japan had a building that could best be described as brutalist ziggurat
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 01/08/2026
if you want to see say, beautiful photos of biking through the alps you can follow me on insta but I know that bluesky couldn’t resist see the trans-alpine bike (and car) shuttle that runs between the gastein valley and mallnitz
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 31/07/2026
Don’t think you could get a better a sprawl v infill contrast if you tried
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 28/07/2026
tired: the clock at LACMA wired: the clock at LAX
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 28/07/2026
look what they did to my boy (www.dezeen.com/2026/07/28/f...)
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 28/07/2026
my once a summer tomato tonnato from the Lula cafe cookbook
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 23/07/2026
demographics projections are very good at the mid to near term but long term ones are almost always absolutely bunk
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 22/07/2026
FAIR and fairly pricing risk may be incompatible www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Luxury Homes Are Raising Risks for California’s Insurer of Last Resort
The state FAIR Plan’s liability exposure is concentrated in some of the wealthiest neighborhoods.
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 22/07/2026
I’m a return guy but just for the Saul Bass RTD logo
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 18/07/2026
doing the thing
Odyssey in 70MM imax
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 17/07/2026
today’s motto
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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 17/07/2026
a really interesting through line through the @nickandert.bsky.social's work and his new opus on the "X" line is the importance and incentives of swapping value capture for capital investments while have a more stable source (ie, taxes) for operations www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Ei...
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