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Harvard economist Ed Glaeser takes a look at the sprawl-inducing home buyer’s tax credit, a policy only “a real estate agent could love” (NYT Blog) Confirmation of what you heard here last month: The No. 2 Senate Democrat thinks a gas tax needs to be on the table to fund a transportation bill next year … Continued

By Elana Schor

7:49 AM EST on November 11, 2009

Harvard economist Ed Glaeser takes a look at the sprawl-inducing home buyer’s tax credit, a policy only “a real estate agent could love” (NYT Blog)
Confirmation of what you heard here last month: The No. 2 Senate Democrat thinks a gas tax needs to be on the table to fund a transportation bill next year (Dow Jones)
An in-depth look at the serious challenges facing American high-speed rail (Wilson Quarterly)
Aw, Senate environment committee chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and senior Republican Jim Inhofe (OK) are really close friends … (Politico)
… even though Inhofe is still taunting Democrats over his party’s climate change boycott (Media Matters)
Federal transit regulators give final approval to new transit lines in Denver (Denver Biz Jrnl)
Seattle NIMBYs take aim at high-speed rail plan (News-Trib)

Elana Schor

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