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8:57 AM EDT on July 22, 2013

    • Paul Krugman: Sprawl Is What Did Detroit In (NYT)
    • Brookings Lays Out the Path Forward for the Motor City
    • Don't Cry For Me, Detroit: These Five Cities Could Find Themselves in the Same Boat (Next City)
    • ... And a Lot of Cities Could Benefit From a Little Chapter 9 Magic Anyway (Slate)
    • Oil Exploration Booms Anew in the Gulf of Mexico. What Could Go Wrong? (Bloomberg via Grist)
    • Amtrak's New Locomotives Are Fat, Expensive and Slow Just As the FRA Ordered (NY Observer)
    • Freshman Sen. Brian Schatz, Bike Champ, Gets Boost From Al Gore in Uphill Election Battle (The Hill)
    • It's About Time: Vancouver B.C. Jumps Into the Bike-Share Fray (Globe and Mail)
    • Helmet Mandate Will Kill Seattle Bike-Share (Seattle Times via Planetizen)
    • Too Good to Be True: Your (Almost) Free, Famous Oregon Bike Trip (Bike Portland)
    • Meet Sheldon Baker, Gracious Streetsblog Donor and Lucky Winner of a New Folding Bike
Tanya Snyder
Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radio’s 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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