Today’s Headlines

9:21 AM EDT on August 2, 2006

City Conserves As Heat Moves To Triple Digits (NY Sun)
Demand Global Warming Leadership Now! (LCV)
Momentum Grows to Turn the Sheridan Expressway into a Park (TSTC)
Brooklyn groups blast Mayor over traffic mess (Courier-Life)
Chicago Tribune Story on Oil (Oil Drum)
MTA chairman Kalikow ready to ride his newest Ferrari (AMNY)
July Critical Mass report (Bikeblog)
The Aging City (Gotham Gazette)

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Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek's journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. He was also one of the original cast members of the "War on Cars" podcast. You can find more of his work on his website.

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