Today’s Headlines
Will Tolls Fill the Void Left By an Inadequate Gas Tax? (Florida Today) Oil & Gas Industry Whines About Obama’s Plan to Eliminate Tax Loopholes (Reporter News) Seven States with the Lowest Gas Taxes (Motley Fool) Scenes From a De-Sprawling America (Press-Herald) Can Cleveland Stop Cannibalizing Its Own Urban Core? (Plain Dealer) Gov. Perry Wants to Raise … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:49 AM EDT on April 22, 2013
- Will Tolls Fill the Void Left By an Inadequate Gas Tax? (Florida Today)
- Oil & Gas Industry Whines About Obama’s Plan to Eliminate Tax Loopholes (Reporter News)
- Seven States with the Lowest Gas Taxes (Motley Fool)
- Scenes From a De-Sprawling America (Press-Herald)
- Can Cleveland Stop Cannibalizing Its Own Urban Core? (Plain Dealer)
- Gov. Perry Wants to Raise Funds For Texas Transpo Without Raising Taxes (Star-Telegram)
- Times of Oman: If You Don’t Have Bike-Share in Your City Yet, Get With the Program
- Vietnam Tries to Build Subway Before Their Streets Are Paralyzed With Congestion (NYT)
- The Thrill and the Danger of Cycling on Country Roads (Pantagraph)
- Guerrilla Gardening is So 2000s. But Have You Heard About the Fruit Fence? (PopUpCity)
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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