Today’s Headlines
Ben Carson: Not Qualified to Run HUD (Slate, NYT, Hill) …Doesn’t Rule Out Using HUD Funds to Benefit Trump Organization (NPR) CityLab Reports on Denver’s Terrible I-70 Highway Widening Project Dallas Under Fire for Big Spending on Consultants After It Fails to Replace Bike Czar (Dallas News) Anaheim Streetcar Officially Dead (Voice of the OC) Ohio DOT Wants … Continued
9:00 AM EST on January 13, 2017
- Ben Carson: Not Qualified to Run HUD (Slate, NYT, Hill)
- …Doesn’t Rule Out Using HUD Funds to Benefit Trump Organization (NPR)
- CityLab Reports on Denver’s Terrible I-70 Highway Widening Project
- Dallas Under Fire for Big Spending on Consultants After It Fails to Replace Bike Czar (Dallas News)
- Anaheim Streetcar Officially Dead (Voice of the OC)
- Ohio DOT Wants to Raise State Support for Transit 33 Percent (Plain Dealer)
- Model Predicts How Urban Density Will Affect Global Energy Use in Coming Decades (Phys.org)
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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