Today’s Headlines
Time to Stop the Desperate Funding Gimmicks, Taxpayer Bailouts (HuffPo, LIUNA) NH Lawmakers Approve Gas Tax Hike As Long As It Funds Road Expansion and Nothing Else (NHPR) Obama Sends Julian Castro‘s Nomination to be HUD Secretary to Senate (The Hill) Formerly Fast-Growing Sprawl Towns Decline in New Jersey (NJ.com) Honolulu Rail Not Living Up to Job-Creation … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:50 AM EDT on June 3, 2014
- Time to Stop the Desperate Funding Gimmicks, Taxpayer Bailouts (HuffPo, LIUNA)
- NH Lawmakers Approve Gas Tax Hike As Long As It Funds Road Expansion and Nothing Else (NHPR)
- Obama Sends Julian Castro‘s Nomination to be HUD Secretary to Senate (The Hill)
- Formerly Fast-Growing Sprawl Towns Decline in New Jersey (NJ.com)
- Honolulu Rail Not Living Up to Job-Creation Promises (Civil Beat)
- Single-Family Housing May Be Down, But Single-Family Houses Are Still Growing (WaPo)
- Driverless Cars Will Transform Transportation (H Plus)
- Transpo Projects Often Ignore Public Health, Especially in Poor Neighborhoods (UC Denver)
- Startup Transit Labs Launches In Four Pilot Cities in the South (Elevation DC)
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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