Today’s Headlines
You Are Here: A Handy Roadmap to How This Bill Becomes A Law (If It Ever Happens) (T4A) Rahall Supports Keystone But Bets Against It (The Hill) The Onion: Sec. LaHood Loses It When Informed of a Pothole in Baltimore Study: “Resilient Walkables” Will Lead the Housing Recovery (Switchboard) Search Data Shows Angelenos Want Elbow … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:44 AM EDT on May 18, 2012
- You Are Here: A Handy Roadmap to How This Bill Becomes A Law (If It Ever Happens) (T4A)
- Rahall Supports Keystone But Bets Against It (The Hill)
- The Onion: Sec. LaHood Loses It When Informed of a Pothole in Baltimore
- Study: “Resilient Walkables” Will Lead the Housing Recovery (Switchboard)
- Search Data Shows Angelenos Want Elbow Room, New Yorkers Want to Go Anywhere Else (HuffPo)
- Eating While Driving Is Far Worse Than Drunk Driving (Sympatico)
- With Onboard Internet, Drivers Can Surf the Web, Update Their Facebook, Crash Their Car (Bloomberg)
- Mapnificent Shows How Far Transit Can Take You in 20 Cities in 30 Minutes (HuffPo)
- CA Leader Wants to Know If Obama Is Good For More HSR Money (Daily Journal)
- How to Make Transit More Woman-Friendly Without Breaking the Bank (Good)
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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