Over the next eight years, the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) needed to pass three different tax increases. These increases would fund the grandest of their plans to improve transportation for the whole region and update the ways we get around, large and small.

But this week, the first of those three initiatives failed. And it failed fast. We review what happened and why.

Plus: Graduations. Big hopes for big buildings on the coast. And the latest election results.

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