Today’s Headlines
Trains, Planes Grind to a Halt as Sandy Approaches East Coast (CNN) States, Not Feds, Will Increasingly Pick Up the Bill For Infrastructure (WaPo) IMF: Adaptability Is Key to Avoid the Economic Shocks of Peak Oil (WaPo) Sen. Vitter Brings Home the Bacon to Louisiana in the Form of MAP-21 (Shreveport Times) Ohio Gov. Kasich … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:43 AM EDT on October 29, 2012
- Trains, Planes Grind to a Halt as Sandy Approaches East Coast (CNN)
- States, Not Feds, Will Increasingly Pick Up the Bill For Infrastructure (WaPo)
- IMF: Adaptability Is Key to Avoid the Economic Shocks of Peak Oil (WaPo)
- Sen. Vitter Brings Home the Bacon to Louisiana in the Form of MAP-21 (Shreveport Times)
- Ohio Gov. Kasich Says Obama’s Auto Bailout Wasn’t All That Awesome (The Hill)
- NC Triangle Transportation Plan Wouldn’t Solve All the Area’s Problems (Chapel Hill News)
- Advocates Rally For Gas Tax Hike in Memphis (Commercial Appeal)
- Canada Considers Smart-Sizing Parking Spaces (Globe and Mail)
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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