Today’s Headlines
NYT Editorial: The Senate Gets the Importance of Transpo Bill, House Does Not AAA Estimate of the Cost of Car Ownership Up 1.9% From Last Year “I’ve Got No Grease”: Boehner Complains About Difficulty of Legislating Without Earmarks (Politico) Whose Job Is It to Solve the Distracted Driving Problem? (USA Today) Romney Wants Credit For … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:44 AM EDT on April 30, 2012
- NYT Editorial: The Senate Gets the Importance of Transpo Bill, House Does Not
- AAA Estimate of the Cost of Car Ownership Up 1.9% From Last Year
- “I’ve Got No Grease”: Boehner Complains About Difficulty of Legislating Without Earmarks (Politico)
- Whose Job Is It to Solve the Distracted Driving Problem? (USA Today)
- Romney Wants Credit For the Auto Bailout, Even Though He Lobbied Against It (Hill)
- Are the Suburbs Really Safer? A Look at Murders and Traffic Deaths (Planetizen)
- Mass Transit Is Critical to Relieve Congestion in Manhattan… Kansas (Leesville Daily Leader)
- A Bike Helmet For the Very Vain (BusinessWeek)
- Win $2,600 and a Trip to Germany For Your Innovative Urban Design Plan (YouCity)
- ICYMI: The Onion‘s Transit Issue
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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