Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Noah Kazis
8:56 AM EST on January 20, 2012
- MTA Labor Talks Break Down, Samuelsen Accuses MTA of Negotiating in Press (News, WSJ)
- Laurence Renard’s Husband Files Wrongful Death Suit Over UES Crash (Post)
- Jackson Heights Merchants to Hold Rally Against 37th Road Pedestrian Plaza (News)
- Hastings-On-Hudson Joins Call for Tappan Zee Transit (NYLCV)
- News: City Council Needs “The Guts to Tell The Guilty Drivers to Suck It Up” — And The Post Agrees
- Bus Service Restored in Bronx’s Country Club Neighborhood, No Cost to MTA (News)
- Instead of Planning 13th Birthday, Dashane Santana’s Family Raising Money For Funeral (DNAinfo)
- Many Excited About Cuomo Infrastructure Spending, But Still No Funding Plan (LoHud)
- Staten Island Drunk Driver Pleads Guilty to Vehicular Homicide (Post)
- Chris Ward Heads to Private Sector, Will Be Bidding on Tappan Zee (Observer)
- Tri-State Sits Down For Interview With Connecticut DOT Commish Jim Redeker (MTR)
- Money Flows to Politicians on Both Sides of Borough Taxi Fight (Post)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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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