Today’s Headlines
Kerry Unveils Revised Energy Bill (Business Green) Poll Shows Hickenlooper with Big Lead Over Rivals in CO Gov Race (TPM) Statehouse Reshuffling Could Torpedo Regional Climate Pacts (Politico) Oil Spill Update: Finally Some Relief From All That Vaguely-Violent Engineering Jargon (Time) Bevy of Lawmakers Break Ground on New Transit Center in San Francisco (Examiner) Meanwhile, … Continued
By
Adam Voiland
9:11 AM EDT on August 12, 2010
- Kerry Unveils Revised Energy Bill (Business Green)
- Poll Shows Hickenlooper with Big Lead Over Rivals in CO Gov Race (TPM)
- Statehouse Reshuffling Could Torpedo Regional Climate Pacts (Politico)
- Oil Spill Update: Finally Some Relief From All That Vaguely-Violent Engineering Jargon (Time)
- Bevy of Lawmakers Break Ground on New Transit Center in San Francisco (Examiner)
- Meanwhile, Pinch Yourself: SF Transit Agency Reports Large Surplus (Streetsblog SF, SF Chron)
- Not Sure About Lunch, But at Least in Chicago There Is Such a Thing as a Free Ride (Chicago Tribune)
- High-Speed Rail Coming to Texas? (Star-Telegram)
- First Impressions of the Phoenix Light Rail (New Times)
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