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Today’s Headlines

Could Reallocated Rail Money from Ohio and Wisc. Get Caught Up in Stimulus Rescissions? (LAT) VA Gov’s Plan for “Found” Transpo Money: Roads, Bridges, and Debt (WaPo) Conservatives Begin to Turn Sour on Republican Earmark Ban (National Review) DDOT’s Gabe Klein Helped Bring DC Into Modern Urbanism, Next Director Should Continue (WaPo) Maine‘s Coastal Towns … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:46 AM EST on December 10, 2010

Could Reallocated Rail Money from Ohio and Wisc. Get Caught Up in Stimulus Rescissions? (LAT)
VA Gov’s Plan for “Found” Transpo Money: Roads, Bridges, and Debt (WaPo)
Conservatives Begin to Turn Sour on Republican Earmark Ban (National Review)
DDOT’s Gabe Klein Helped Bring DC Into Modern Urbanism, Next Director Should Continue (WaPo)
Maine‘s Coastal Towns Considering Bus Rapid Transit – With Federal Money (Times Record)
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Anti-Sprawl Rule, Rejects Builders’ Suit (Greenwire)
NJ Transit Hires Big Guns to Fight ARC Repayment Bill… (Asbury Park Press)
…Meanwhile, NJ DOT’s Biggest Battle is Against Traffic Congestion (Star Ledger)
Dallas Mayor Injured After Bike Wreck (Chronicle)
Examining Burgeoning Mass Transit – And Car Ownership Rates – in Latin America and Asia (City Fix)

Tanya Snyder

Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.

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