- LaHood puts his health-reformer hat on for the administration .. (Tribune)
- ... days after making a surprise appearance at the National Bike Summit (Streetsblog SF)
- Oberstar supports House ban on for-profit earmarks -- but he doesn't consider the transportation bill's "special projects" to be earmarks (The Hill)
- Could San Francisco become a model for transit financing through local fuel fees? (NYT)
- Rep. Mica, the House infrastructure committee's top Republican, makes the case against executive-branch earmarking (The Hill)
- D.C.'s transit agency faces a make-or-break debate over how to close its budget gap (WaPo)
- GM planning to follow the Volt with a range of purely electric, engine-less vehicles (AllCarsElectric)
- Maryland outlines its request for federal street cleanup aid following last month's Snowmageddon (Balt. Sun)
- One Dallas-area skeptic of transit-oriented development outlines his frustrations (Morn News)
- New York members of Congress meet with LaHood on bringing high-speed rail money upstate (WKTV)
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