Today’s Headlines
Senate Takes Up House’s 3-Month Patch (WaPo, Roll Call) Why Bankers Are Revolting Against Senate Bill (KGOU) Obama Will Sign Extension, McConnell Still Pushing to Finish Senate Bill Before Recess (The Hill) Boehner: We’ll Pass a Multi-Year Bill This Fall But Senate Bill Is “Piece of Sh*t” (The Hill, Politico) Brookings: Suburban White Flight Is a Thing of the … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:49 AM EDT on July 30, 2015
- Senate Takes Up House’s 3-Month Patch (WaPo, Roll Call)
- Why Bankers Are Revolting Against Senate Bill (KGOU)
- Obama Will Sign Extension, McConnell Still Pushing to Finish Senate Bill Before Recess (The Hill)
- Boehner: We’ll Pass a Multi-Year Bill This Fall But Senate Bill Is “Piece of Sh*t” (The Hill, Politico)
- Brookings: Suburban White Flight Is a Thing of the Past
- South Carolina Embraces “Target Zero” (WLTX)
- Three Years After the Failure of T-SPLOST, the State of Transportation in Metro Atlanta (Peach Pundit)
- What a San Antonio Council Member Learned After Taking the Bus for a Month (TPR)
- As Car-Sharing Gains in Popularity, Will Transit Lose Out? (News 1130)
- Undersung Ped-Friendly Design Elements: Transparency and Imageability (CityLab)
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.
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