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Supreme Court Upholds Sprawl Fees For Greenfield Development (Switchboard) One Ridiculous Charge Dropped Against Grieving Georgia Mom Raquel Nelson, Two Remain (AJC) House Republican Says Grover Norquist’s Anti-Tax Pledge Is “Paralyzing” Congress (WaPo) Sen. Rand Paul Takes Up Anti-Transpo Enhancement Zealotry Where Coburn Left Off (Courier-Journal) Feds Lay the Groundwork For Detroit-to-Chicago HSR With $196.5 … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:37 AM EDT on October 6, 2011

Supreme Court Upholds Sprawl Fees For Greenfield Development (Switchboard)
One Ridiculous Charge Dropped Against Grieving Georgia Mom Raquel Nelson, Two Remain (AJC)
House Republican Says Grover Norquist’s Anti-Tax Pledge Is “Paralyzing” Congress (WaPo)
Sen. Rand Paul Takes Up Anti-Transpo Enhancement Zealotry Where Coburn Left Off (Courier-Journal)
Feds Lay the Groundwork For Detroit-to-Chicago HSR With $196.5 Million Grant (WDIV)
Flip the Funding Imbalance Between Roads and Transit On Its Head (Infrastructurist)
Seven Vancouver Area Mayors Get Behind Transpo Plan, Complete With Gas Tax to Fund It (Sun)
Gov. Christie Spends $95 Million to Kill ARC Tunnel — To Save NJ Money (AP)
TEN Evaluates Transpo-Sector Apprenticeship and Job Training Programs’ Equity Impact
The Algorithm Behind NYC Bike Share Planning (Atlantic Cities)
Texting While Driving Doubles Reaction Time (WaPo)
Did You Walk Your Kid to School Yesterday? (Sun-Times)

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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