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 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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