Today’s Headlines
City Infrastructure Projects Poised to Lose Millions if Earmarks Go the Way of the Dodo (USA, Politico) Drugged-Up Drivers Involved in a Third of Highway Deaths (Transpo Nation) Potential House Science Committee Chair Considers Global Warming a Fraud (Politico) Cancun Beaches Threatened as Climate Talks Unfold (AP, Reuters) NJ Gets $271 Million Bill From Feds for … Continued
By
Adam Voiland
8:58 AM EST on December 1, 2010
- City Infrastructure Projects Poised to Lose Millions if Earmarks Go the Way of the Dodo (USA, Politico)
- Drugged-Up Drivers Involved in a Third of Highway Deaths (Transpo Nation)
- Potential House Science Committee Chair Considers Global Warming a Fraud (Politico)
- Cancun Beaches Threatened as Climate Talks Unfold (AP, Reuters)
- NJ Gets $271 Million Bill From Feds for Aborted ARC Tunnel Work (AP)
- Boston, New York Among the World’s Most Walkable Cities (Infrastructurist)
- Commuter Transit Benefit on the Brink of Expiration (Fox)
- Amtrak to Allow Guns on Board Most Trains (Sacramento Bee)
- Bikes v. Electric Cars; Bikes v. Bikes (Atlantic, HuffPost)
- Sarah Palin: Obesity a “God-Given” Right? (CBS)
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