Today’s Headlines
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) … Continued
By
Adam Voiland
9:14 AM EDT on August 11, 2010
- 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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