Today’s Headlines
Dems Retreat on Energy, Oil-Spill Bills (The Hill) Obesity Rates Continue To Rise (NYT) BP’s “Static Kill” Called a Success (BBC) AJC Op-Ed: Transit, Not Roads, Will Drive Tomorrow’s Economic Growth Reason Foundation: Transit a “Peripheral Concern” to National Transpo Policy Voters Like Bridges to Nowhere in Their Own Districts (Des Moines Register) A Call … Continued
By
Adam Voiland
9:18 AM EDT on August 4, 2010
- Dems Retreat on Energy, Oil-Spill Bills (The Hill)
- Obesity Rates Continue To Rise (NYT)
- BP’s “Static Kill” Called a Success (BBC)
- AJC Op-Ed: Transit, Not Roads, Will Drive Tomorrow’s Economic Growth
- Reason Foundation: Transit a “Peripheral Concern” to National Transpo Policy
- Voters Like Bridges to Nowhere in Their Own Districts (Des Moines Register)
- A Call to Support New York City’s Transit System (HuffPo)
- Do Planners Have a Budgeting Problem? (SF Chron)
- Mapping Out a Transportation Agenda For New York’s Next Governor (Mobilizing the Region)
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