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Today’s Headlines

“Free-Range Parents” Will Seek Legal Remedies Against Police Who Detained Their Children (Salon) Drivers License Suspension Often Tips Low-Income People Into Punishing Cycle of Poverty (NYT) Minnesota Governor Pushes Plan to Borrow $842 Million for Transportation Projects (Star Tribune) Boston’s MBTA Scaling Back Late-Night Service (WBUR) Dallas Morning News: Instead of Trinity Toll Road Highway, How About … Continued
  • “Free-Range Parents” Will Seek Legal Remedies Against Police Who Detained Their Children (Salon)
  • Drivers License Suspension Often Tips Low-Income People Into Punishing Cycle of Poverty (NYT)
  • Minnesota Governor Pushes Plan to Borrow $842 Million for Transportation Projects (Star Tribune)
  • Boston’s MBTA Scaling Back Late-Night Service (WBUR)
  • Dallas Morning News: Instead of Trinity Toll Road Highway, How About a Smaller Road
  • Georgia Man Arrested After Trying to Build Guardrail Where His Daughter Was Killed (Georgia TipSheet)
  • New Traincars Introduced for DC’s Metro (The Hill)
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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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