Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

McConnell Dashes All Hopes: No Long-Term Bill, No Gas Tax Hike, Hello Extension (WaPo, Politico) Obama’s “Patience Is Running Low,” Could Veto Extension (The Hill) “We Made This Easy For You; Just Pass the Bill We Wrote,” Foxx Tells Congress (The Hill) Top Finance Committee Members Introduce Plan to Fund Transpo With Corporate Tax Reform … Continued

By Tanya Snyder

8:49 AM EDT on July 9, 2015

McConnell Dashes All Hopes: No Long-Term Bill, No Gas Tax Hike, Hello Extension (WaPo, Politico)
Obama’s “Patience Is Running Low,” Could Veto Extension (The Hill)
“We Made This Easy For You; Just Pass the Bill We Wrote,” Foxx Tells Congress (The Hill)
Top Finance Committee Members Introduce Plan to Fund Transpo With Corporate Tax Reform (WaPo)
Mid City San Diego Gets First Freeway-Level Transit Stations (NBC)
Living in a Compact City Won’t Make You Thin If You Keep Driving to Work (PLOS)
The Idaho Stop Now Wants to Be Called the Paris Stop (BBC)
Ford Focuses on the (Car-Lite) Future of Mobility, Expands Silicon Valley Presence (Wards Auto)
Well, That’s One Way to Protest a Highway [NSFW] (NLTimes)

Tanya Snyder

Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios 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.

Today's Headlines

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