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Today’s Headlines

9:04 AM EDT on March 28, 2011

    • Albany Reaches Budget Deal, Will Slash Education and Health, Cut Taxes on Rich (NYT, CapTon)
    • Bloomberg Opposes Car-Free Parks, Claims Congestion Will Worsen (NY1)
    • Schumer Speaks on PPW Bike Lane: "I Am Not Commenting. I Am Not Commenting." (NYT)
    • Hit Piece on PPW Bike Lane Fits Right In On Wall Street Journal Opinion Pages
    • Bus Driver Hits and Kills Cyclist Qi Yu Weng at Second and 96th (NYT, Post)
    • Driver Exiting Queenboro Bridge Jumps Curb, Kills Man on Long Island City Sidewalk (News)
    • Taxi Driver Plows Into Columbus Circle Lenscrafters (DNAinfo)
    • Cuomo Team Hands Out 3,500 Parking Placards, Can't Explain Why (Transpo Nation)
    • Restaurant Uses Kent Ave. Bike Lane for Valet Parking Under NYPD's Watchful Eye (Gothamist)
    • Transportation Drives Revival of Connecticut's Cities (WSJ)
    • Markowitz's Three Full-Time Drivers Come Complete With Shady Ethics (Post)

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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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