Today’s Headlines
Trump Wants Oil Baron and Friend-of-Putin Rex Tillerson to Be the Nation’s Top Diplomat (NYT) Will Trump Burn the Bridge of Trust Obama Built Toward Cities? (Next City) California Mayors’ Concerns About Trump (SF Chronicle) NJ Transit Understaffed Safety Jobs While Hiring Christie Allies at Top (Bloomberg) America’s Slow But Steady Climb to Faster Rail Travel (CityLab) … Continued
8:58 AM EST on December 13, 2016
- Trump Wants Oil Baron and Friend-of-Putin Rex Tillerson to Be the Nation’s Top Diplomat (NYT)
- Will Trump Burn the Bridge of Trust Obama Built Toward Cities? (Next City)
- California Mayors’ Concerns About Trump (SF Chronicle)
- NJ Transit Understaffed Safety Jobs While Hiring Christie Allies at Top (Bloomberg)
- America’s Slow But Steady Climb to Faster Rail Travel (CityLab)
- Family Shipping Company Could Be Conflict for Transpo Pick Elaine Chao (ProPublica)
- Birmingham One of Five Cities to Get TOD Boost from Feds (AL.com, FTA)
- HUD Announces “Choice Neighborhoods” Grants, Including Louisville, St. Louis (WFPL, Post-Dispatch)
- Nashville’s Transit Future Depends on State Legislators (Nashville Biz Journal)
- Strategies for the White Plains Transit District (Journal News)
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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