Today’s Headlines
In Announcing His Presidential Candidacy, Rand Paul Slams Gas Tax Hike (The Hill) How Washington State Compelled Big Companies to Discourage Solo Car Commuting (CityLab) Cities Like Columbus Trying to Lure Young Professionals From Bigger Coastal Cities (USA Today) How Los Angeles “Engineered” a Housing Crisis (Salon) Mashable Shares a Chart Showing the Rapid Global Growth … Continued
8:58 AM EDT on April 8, 2015
- In Announcing His Presidential Candidacy, Rand Paul Slams Gas Tax Hike (The Hill)
- How Washington State Compelled Big Companies to Discourage Solo Car Commuting (CityLab)
- Cities Like Columbus Trying to Lure Young Professionals From Bigger Coastal Cities (USA Today)
- How Los Angeles “Engineered” a Housing Crisis (Salon)
- Mashable Shares a Chart Showing the Rapid Global Growth of Bike-Share
- Tampa’s New Urbanism Makeover (Planetizen)
- Survey: Homebuying Interest at an All-Time Low (Chicago Tribune)
Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.
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