Today’s Headlines
Amtrak To Hit 30 Million Passenger Milestone as Congress Aims to Cut Funding 60% (Baltimore Sun) Looking Back on 40 Years of American Politics and Passenger Rail (NewsObserver) Drive Less, Pay Less on Car Insurance: Pay-As-You-Go Plans on the Rise (FoxBusiness) ARRA Keeps On Going: $700M in Infrastructure Funding Last Month (Journal of Commerce) Jobs … Continued
8:50 AM EDT on September 13, 2011
- Amtrak To Hit 30 Million Passenger Milestone as Congress Aims to Cut Funding 60% (Baltimore Sun)
- Looking Back on 40 Years of American Politics and Passenger Rail (NewsObserver)
- Drive Less, Pay Less on Car Insurance: Pay-As-You-Go Plans on the Rise (FoxBusiness)
- ARRA Keeps On Going: $700M in Infrastructure Funding Last Month (Journal of Commerce)
- Jobs Bill Includes $4B for HSR, Delaware Hoping for New Amtrak Facility (Delaware Online)
- The Challenge for Jobs Act: Can GOP Support Bill If It Means Success for President? (ThinkProgress)
- Greater Greater Washington on How to Make Cities Greener
- New FHWA Guidelines for Rumble Strips Worry People Who Ride Bicycles (BikeLeague)
- American Progress Remembers 85% of Current Republican Reps Once Voted for Stimulus
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