Today’s Headlines
Opposition Building to Payroll Tax Portion of Ravitch Plan (NYT) Manhattan Beep Stringer Joins TA in Calling for Speeding Crackdown (NY1) Police Pursue Car in the Bronx; Car Jumps Curb, Injures Three Teenagers (News, NYT) Guido Carabajo Identified as Dragging Victim (News, NYT) Hundreds of Parking Spots Among the Spoils Claimed by State Senate GOP … Continued
By
Ben Fried
9:17 AM EST on February 13, 2009
- Opposition Building to Payroll Tax Portion of Ravitch Plan (NYT)
- Manhattan Beep Stringer Joins TA in Calling for Speeding Crackdown (NY1)
- Police Pursue Car in the Bronx; Car Jumps Curb, Injures Three Teenagers (News, NYT)
- Guido Carabajo Identified as Dragging Victim (News, NYT)
- Hundreds of Parking Spots Among the Spoils Claimed by State Senate GOP Under Bruno (News)
- Obama Burned by Caterpillar CEO After Using Him as Stimulus Bill Prop (The Caucus)
- NJDOT Expands Its Red Light Cam Program (MTR)
- New Haven Safe Streets Activists Take Advocacy Statewide (NH Indy)
- Fewer Markings, Safer Streets? (How We Drive)
- The Benefits of a Sidewalk Perspective (Sustainable Savannah via Streetsblog.net)
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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