Today’s Headlines

8:11 AM EDT on May 5, 2011

Senate to Vote on Repealing Tax Breaks for Big Oil -- But Not This Week (The Hill)
Bipartisan Gang of Six Can't Come to Debt-Reduction Consensus, Conrad Goes It Alone (WaPo)
The Next Budget Battle: Negotiations Over the Debt Ceiling Have Begun (WaPo)
Florida's Rejected HSR Funds Go to Chicago-St. Louis Line (Tribune)
Wisconsin's Latest Budgetary Casualty: Regional Transit Authorities (WRN)
This Three-Page Love Note to Ray LaHood Doesn't Even Mention the Tabletop Speech (Politico)
MD Gov. O'Malley Considering a Gas Tax Hike and Increased Tolls (Baltimore Sun)
What Makes a City Walk-Friendly? Learn From the Winners (Atlantic)
Bribing People to Live Near Transit May Not Be the Best Smart-Growth Plan (Yglesias)
Public Anger Over Trans-Texas Corridor Spurred Transportation Shakeup (Land Line)
What Is This Bike-Friendly State? And What Have You Done With Texas? (AltTransport)

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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