Today’s Headlines
Senate EPW Committee Releases Six-Year Bill (Summary, Text) Anthony Foxx Says EPW Bill Is Too Small (The Hill) Off-Topic Chat With Anthony Foxx (WaPo, McClatchy) Full Court Press From Business and Labor for Infrastructure Spending This Week (USA Today) Everyone Knows the Gas Tax Needs to Be Raised But No One Is Willing to Do It (Slate, Vox) … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:46 AM EDT on May 13, 2014
- Senate EPW Committee Releases Six-Year Bill (Summary, Text)
- Anthony Foxx Says EPW Bill Is Too Small (The Hill)
- Off-Topic Chat With Anthony Foxx (WaPo, McClatchy)
- Full Court Press From Business and Labor for Infrastructure Spending This Week (USA Today)
- Everyone Knows the Gas Tax Needs to Be Raised But No One Is Willing to Do It (Slate, Vox)
- These Projects Will Stay Unbuilt Without Federal Transpo Funds (Marin IJ, WABE)
- Lack of Transit Quashes Columbus’s Bid to Host GOP Convention (Dispatch)
- Dan Burden, Evelyn Blumenberg Among Today’s White House “Champions of Change” Honorees
- California Considers a Per-Mile Tax (KEYT)
- “A New Day” for Atlanta Transit (Saporta Report)
- California High-Speed Rail Report Reveals “Unavoidable” Consequences (Fresno Bee)
- The Suburbs Aren’t Dead — They’re the Future (Next City)
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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