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Today’s Headlines

8:52 AM EDT on May 7, 2015

    • Dallas Leaders: 15-Stories of Parking by DART Will "Keep Downtown Healthy” (Dallas Morning News)
    • NYT: Transit Paramount to Fighting Poverty
    • Officials Say Defeat of Michigan's Roads Tax Proposal Means Conditions Will Get Worse (Detroit News)
    • Cities Make Great Retirement Homes (Next City)
    • Atlanta Beltline Proposal Envisions 50 Miles of Streetcars (Curbed Atlanta)
    • A Prosecutor Explains Why Word Choice -- Crash vs. Accident -- Matters (Alabama DUI Prosecution)
    • Will Airlines Get In On the Fight Against High-Speed Rail in Texas? (CityLab)
    • Los Angeles' Transition to a Multi-Modal City (NYT)

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