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8:46 AM EDT on May 3, 2011

    • Rep. Mica, NJ Transit Worry About Terrorist Retaliation on Public Transportation (The Hill, Star-Ledger)
    • House Could Vote on Three Bills This Week to Expand Oil Drilling (Switchboard)
    • LaHood Tells WV Transpo Conference He's Still Betting on a Bill This Year (AP)
    • Sen. Rockefeller: Tax Cuts for the Rich or Safe Bridges and Adequate Rail? You Can't Have Both.
    • Since You Can't Solve Climate Change, Manage It with Infrastructure Investment, Carbon Tax (Grist)
    • Ugandans Fired Upon by Government Forces Over Walk-to-Work Protest (Al-Jazeera)
    • Bike-Share Shuttles Hundreds to Bin Laden Death Rally at the White House (GGW, Transpo Nation)
    • Energy Economist Says Oil Peaked in 2006, Bin Laden Death Brings Prices Down (Good, Land Line)
    • CA Considers Downgrading Rail to Slower Trains on Shared Tracks in Order to Speed the Process (AP)
    • Cash-Strapped Metro Says Nationals Should Pay for Late-Night Metro Service After Games (Examiner)
    • You Need to Be Rich to Rent in D.C. (Housing Complex)
Tanya Snyder
Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radio’s 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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