Today’s Headlines
That’s Secretary Foxx to You — Or, It Will Be at the End of This Week (The Hill) Will EPA Nominee Gina McCarthy Be Sacrificed at the Altar of Obama’s Climate Initiative? (WaPo) VA Gubernatorial Candidates Cross Party Lines in Campaign Talk About McDonnell’s Transpo Bill (NBC) Bicycles Outnumber Cars on London Bridges (London SE1) South Carolina’s … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:56 AM EDT on June 25, 2013
- That’s Secretary Foxx to You — Or, It Will Be at the End of This Week (The Hill)
- Will EPA Nominee Gina McCarthy Be Sacrificed at the Altar of Obama’s Climate Initiative? (WaPo)
- VA Gubernatorial Candidates Cross Party Lines in Campaign Talk About McDonnell’s Transpo Bill (NBC)
- Bicycles Outnumber Cars on London Bridges (London SE1)
- South Carolina’s New Transpo Bill Borrows Money to Avoid Raising Gas Tax (AP)
- Why Do People Make Such Irrational Decisions When Car-Buying? (Mr. Money Mustache)
- Leave Transit for the Unwashed Masses: The Upper Crust Rides Uber (Next City)
- An Ode to Alleys, the Capillaries of a City’s Circulatory System (SPUR)
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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