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8:57 AM EST on December 6, 2010

    • With Long Island Recount Over, Republicans Officially Retake State Senate (News)
    • Upstate GOPers Want Extra Highway Spending (Times-Union)
    • Meanwhile, Skelos and Long Island Republicans Fight to Repeal MTA Payroll Tax (Newsday)
    • Paul Steely White Explains Why He Believes in Bike Lanes (News)
    • ... But the Editorial Board Has Some Questions For Janette Sadik-Khan (News)
    • Vacca Endorses Speeding Cams, Suggests Locations for 20 MPH Zones (WSJ)
    • NYC Goes After $700 Million in Unpaid Parking Tickets (NYT)
    • Port Authority Likely to Spend ARC Money on Repairs, Not New Projects (WSJ)
    • TLC Report Sees Handicapped-Accessible Cabs as Wasteful, Pushes Better Dispatching (News)
    • Hudson Valley Starts Thinking About Smart Growth (LoHud)
    • Station Agents No Help With Damaged MetroCards, Says Pete Donohue (News)

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Noah Kazis
Noah joined Streetsblog as a New York City reporter at the start of 2010. When he was a kid, he collected subway paraphernalia in a Vignelli-map shoebox. Before coming to Streetsblog, he blogged at TheCityFix DC and worked as a field organizer for the Obama campaign in Toledo, Ohio. Noah graduated from Yale University, where he wrote his senior thesis on the class politics of transportation reform in New York City. He lives in Morningside Heights.

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