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Tanya became Streetsblog&#8217;s Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.

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Federal Stimulus

GOP Demands a Stop to Stim Spending. What Will It Mean for Rail Projects?

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Rahall Responds, Says His Transpo Record Is About More Than Just Highways

The Power of the Pursestrings Shifts to a Livability Denier in the House

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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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Car Culture

Fred Barnes: Americans Mainly Want to Stay in Their Cars

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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GOP Demands a Stop to Stim Spending. What Will It Mean for Rail Projects?

Rahall Responds, Says His Transpo Record Is About More Than Just Highways

The Power of the Pursestrings Shifts to a Livability Denier in the House

Could a Coal-n-Highways Dem Take Oberstar’s Place on Transpo Committee?

Just How Lame Will This Lame Duck Be?

Fred Barnes: Americans Mainly Want to Stay in Their Cars

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