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
8:59 AM EDT on April 16, 2015
- “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)
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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