Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

President Obama Re-elected to Second Term (WaPo) Environmentalists Hope For More Action on Climate Change This Time Around (SF Chronicle) An Eight-Step Plan For America’s Cities in the Next Four Years (Atlantic Cities) John Mica Re-elected (WKMG Local 6) Pro-Rail Candidate Comes From Behind to Be Elected Mayor of Honolulu (Star Advertiser) LA’s Measure J … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

9:04 AM EST on November 7, 2012

President Obama Re-elected to Second Term (WaPo)
Environmentalists Hope For More Action on Climate Change This Time Around (SF Chronicle)
An Eight-Step Plan For America’s Cities in the Next Four Years (Atlantic Cities)
John Mica Re-elected (WKMG Local 6)
Pro-Rail Candidate Comes From Behind to Be Elected Mayor of Honolulu (Star Advertiser)
LA’s Measure J Narrowly Fails to Extend Sales Tax For Transit to 2069 (LA Streetsblog, LAT)
Rejection of Light Rail Tax Could Spell Trouble for Columbia River Crossing (WW, Columbian)
Houston Votes to Keep on Allowing Transit Taxes to Be Diverted to Roads (Chronicle)
Chapel Hill Area Easily Approves Tax to Fund Light Rail, Without Help From Rural Areas (Chapelboro)
Virginia Beach Votes for Light Rail (Virginian-Pilot)
Memphis Initiative to Fund Transit With Half-Cent Gas Tax Hike Fails At the Polls (Commercial Appeal)

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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