Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Senate Rejects GOP Oil Drilling Plan for Alaska (AP) Hudson Yards Talks Collapse… (City Room) …MTA Reopens Bidding (Crain’s, NYT, Post) NYT: Put Port Authority In Charge of Moynihan Station Bruno Still Pushing Suspension of Gas Tax (Times Union) What the Region’s Big Time Pols Think of the ‘Holiday’ (MTR) 9-Year-Old Struck By 16-Year-Old Driver … Continued

By Ben Fried

9:00 AM EDT on May 14, 2008

Senate Rejects GOP Oil Drilling Plan for Alaska (AP)
Hudson Yards Talks Collapse… (City Room)
…MTA Reopens Bidding (Crain’s, NYT, Post)
NYT: Put Port Authority In Charge of Moynihan Station
Bruno Still Pushing Suspension of Gas Tax (Times Union)
What the Region’s Big Time Pols Think of the ‘Holiday’ (MTR)
9-Year-Old Struck By 16-Year-Old Driver in School Zone (News, NYT, Post)
6-Year-Old Wanders Onto Highway From School (News)
Donald Shoup on the Politics of Parking (Toronto Star via Planetizen)
More About ParkingTicket.com (City Room)

Ben Fried

Ben Fried started as a Streetsblog reporter in 2008 and led the site as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2018. He lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with his wife.

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