Scrap Trucks in North Hollywood, June New Home Sales

· It's locals versus the scrap trucks in North Hollywood [LAT]
· New home sales spike in June, but fall 6.6 percent in the West [WSJ]
· Cash-strapped cities and towns selling off land at "nominal fees" [NYT]
· Pondering the reality of Tesla verus the promise of those cars [NYT]
· Duarte 210 freeway project will help block noise for high schools [PSN]
· NYT claims Angelenos are smug about weather [NYT]
· LA Times tries its hand at the Great Westside Starting Point Debate [LAT]
· Majestic's Roski says he's still good friends with AEG's Leiweke [WDN]
· New Yorker's Paul Goldberger on where architecture is, where it's going, more [Big Think]
· Advocates want more grocery stores in poor LA-areas [Breeze]
· Silver Lake Walking Man is remembered with big walk, investigation ongoing [LAT]