- Bike-Share Foe Maes Will Face Livability Advocate Hickenlooper in Governor's Race (Denver Post)
- More Election Night Results (CNN)
- Feds on the Verge of Changing Standards That Obstruct Innovative Bikeway Projects (BikePortland)
- Plane Crash Kills Longtime Oil-State Senator Ted Stevens (The Hill)
- Did Global Warming Cause an Island of Ice to Break Off Petermann Glacier? (NYT)
- Seattle Mulls Special Transportation Tax District (Seattle Times)
- Maryland Gov O'Malley Defends Purple Line (Baltimore Sun)
- Get Your Paranoid, Cynical View of the Livable Communities Act Right Here (American Thinker)
- Detroit Free Press: Virulent Anti-Transit and Anti-Tax Attitudes Attract a Thin Slice of the Electorate
- Will Florida Get High Speed Rail Right? (Huffington Post)
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