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Today’s Headlines

8:21 AM EDT on July 29, 2014

    • Dem Senator Whitehouse: House Bill Is "Pathetic" But I'll Vote for It (The Hill)
    • House Directs Homeland Security to Develop a Plan to Protect Infrastructure (The Hill)
    • Julián Castro Takes the Helm at HUD (NBC)
    • Pension Funds Eye Infrastructure Investment, But Not in United States (Roll Call)
    • Study Shows Where Bike-Share Increases or Decreases Transit Use (CityLab, GGW)
    • How Chuck Marohn "Recovered" From Sprawl-Building to Become a Champion of Strong Towns (Time)
    • Transit Advocates Oppose Next Week's Road Funding Measure in Missouri (Governing)
    • Minnesota's Nice Ride Finds One Way to Increase Bike-Share Use Among Low-Income People (Pi Press)
    • As Massachusetts Grows, It Has to Build Denser Housing (WGBH)
    • While Salt Lake City Waits for Streetcar, How About a Bus Circulator? (Tribune)
    • RideScout Exec Calls For "Right-Pricing" Transportation So Users Pay the True Costs (Roll Call)
    • A Fast Transit Response to a Slow-Transit Response to a Fast-Transit Argument (Human Transit)
Tanya Snyder
Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radio’s 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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