Today’s Headlines
LaHood Isn’t on Unofficial List of Secretaries Returning For Second Term (JOC, The Hill) With Kerry and Hutchison Out of the Senate, Who Will Speak For the Infrastructure Bank? (Politico) Reason Comes Out With User-Pays Doctrine Just As McDonnell Nixes It in VA (Wonkette) So It Stands to Reason That Conservatives Don’t Quite Know What to … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:49 AM EST on January 10, 2013
- LaHood Isn’t on Unofficial List of Secretaries Returning For Second Term (JOC, The Hill)
- With Kerry and Hutchison Out of the Senate, Who Will Speak For the Infrastructure Bank? (Politico)
- Reason Comes Out With User-Pays Doctrine Just As McDonnell Nixes It in VA (Wonkette)
- So It Stands to Reason That Conservatives Don’t Quite Know What to Think (National Review)
- MD Gov. O’Malley Takes Opposite Tack, Seeks to Raise Gas Tax (Biz Journal, Daily Record)
- The Zipcar Acquisition Isn’t the Only Big News on Car-Sharing (Next City)
- Transit in Jeopardy After Referendum Loss in Atlanta (AJC)
- And They Say People Don’t Like Having Their Movements Tracked! (Good)
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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