Monday’s Headlines Are Headlines
Things happened.
By
Blake Aued
12:01 AM EDT on April 22, 2024
- Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was in Miami to support President Biden’s re-election. (Miami Herald)
- Roll Call interviewed Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), the outgoing head of the Congressional Bike Caucus.
- Take it for what it’s worth, but Tesla says it still plans to build a big-rig charging corridor in the West despite the Biden administration rejecting its grant request. (TechCrunch)
- The death toll in Portland continues to mount. (Mercury)
- The county surrounding Asheville, North Carolina, isn’t interested in transit, so the city now has $300,000 to play with. (Citizen-Times)
- Almost 100 years before Rosa Parks, a Black woman refused to give up her seat on a San Francisco streetcar. (Mississippi Today)
- In other profiles in courage, a San Francisco business owner is going on a hunger strike because of a bike lane. (USA Today)
- Toupees, hot sauce and oysters are among the things Uber passengers left behind. (CBS News)
Blake Aued has been doing Streetsblog's daily national news digest for years. He's also an Atlanta Braves fan, which enrages his editor in New York.
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