Today’s Headlines
After Obama’s Speech, Mica Confirms Support For “One Additional” Transpo Extension (The Hill, T4A) Here We Go Again: Obama Directs Agencies To Identify Shovel-Ready Projects (JOC, Sun-Times) Fox Previews Gas Tax Fight With Misleading Comment About Obama’s Speech (WaPo) Oil Drilling Is Up 60% Under Obama, But It Doesn’t Seem to Be Lowering Gas Prices … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:47 AM EDT on September 1, 2011
- After Obama’s Speech, Mica Confirms Support For “One Additional” Transpo Extension (The Hill, T4A)
- Here We Go Again: Obama Directs Agencies To Identify Shovel-Ready Projects (JOC, Sun-Times)
- Fox Previews Gas Tax Fight With Misleading Comment About Obama’s Speech (WaPo)
- Oil Drilling Is Up 60% Under Obama, But It Doesn’t Seem to Be Lowering Gas Prices (WaPo)
- Denver Rail Gets $1 Billion in Federal Money, Still $2 Billion Short (ABC)
- How the Tea Party Overreached With Local Effort to Remove Parking Meters (Mayor of Ventura)
- And That’s Not All: Tea Party Also Targets Smart Growth, Planning Commissions (Grist)
- Puerto Rico Presents a Case Study in Induced Automobile Demand (Yglesias)
- Smart Growth Experts Brainstorm How to Handle Depopulated Exurbs (NY Academy of Sciences)
Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.
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