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With Approval Ratings at Their Lowest, Obama Pitches $447 Billion Jobs Plan (Chronicle) Obama’s Jobs Speech Adds More Pressure to Super Committee (WSJ) Super Committee Already Shows Signs of Stress; John Kyl Virtuously Refuses to Compromise (TPM) Obama Should Have Apologized to Rep. DeFazio (OregonLive) Don’t Overestimate the Job-Creation Power of Infrastructure Spending (ABC) As … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:38 AM EDT on September 9, 2011

With Approval Ratings at Their Lowest, Obama Pitches $447 Billion Jobs Plan (Chronicle)
Obama’s Jobs Speech Adds More Pressure to Super Committee (WSJ)
Super Committee Already Shows Signs of Stress; John Kyl Virtuously Refuses to Compromise (TPM)
Obama Should Have Apologized to Rep. DeFazio (OregonLive)
Don’t Overestimate the Job-Creation Power of Infrastructure Spending (ABC)
As Commuter Pain Increases, Many Cry Out For Public Transportation (Infrastructurist, CNET)
5 More Reasons Why Tea Partiers Should Love Bikes (TreeHugger)
Bicyclists Have Better Ideas For Zipcar’s Bike-Disparaging Ad (BikePortland)
Bogota’s Pioneering BRT System, 10 Years Later (Streetfilms)
Twin Cities Population Shifts to Central Core (Finance & Commerce)
A College Students Speaks Up For “Safe Routes to Universities” (LA Streetsblog)

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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