Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

Obama Pledges to Push for New Energy Law Amidst Gulf Disaster (Politico) But the Climate Bill in Congress Won’t Wean Us Off Oil (Takeaway) It Looks Like New York State Government Will Make It Through the Day (Post, NY1, NYT) Houses Might Be Demolished in Name of BQE ‘Modernization’ (Bklyn Paper) If We Rebuilt the … Continued

By Ben Fried

8:58 AM EDT on June 14, 2010

Obama Pledges to Push for New Energy Law Amidst Gulf Disaster (Politico)
But the Climate Bill in Congress Won’t Wean Us Off Oil (Takeaway)
It Looks Like New York State Government Will Make It Through the Day (Post, NY1, NYT)
Houses Might Be Demolished in Name of BQE ‘Modernization’ (Bklyn Paper)
If We Rebuilt the East River Waterfront for Modern Times, Would the FDR Exist? (WNYC)
600 NYC Students Rallied at City Hall to Preserve Discount MetroCards (City Room)
Ben Kabak Ranks MTA Protests: High School Students Top De Blasio
Erinn Phelan in Vegetative State, Not Expected to Survive February Hit-and-Run (Post)
More Pedestrian Space Coming to Fort Greene’s Fowler Square (Post)
NYCDOT Testing Out Less Energy-Intensive Asphalt (NY1)

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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