Posts tagged Tom Coburn
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Breakfast links: 16 fewer cars
Metro pulls cars; DDOT still committed to bike lanes; New use for parking garage; Woodridge wants a main street; How should federal buildings look?; Students could lose parking privileges; DHS delayed; Keep sprawl in Czech; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Crusaders against bikes and peds
GOP targets bike and ped funding; Drivers are the real socialists?; Speeders beware; Contractors will fix escalators; High commercial taxes but low vacancies; Minnesota-Benning project slow and needy; Track White Flint in real time. Keep reading…
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Breakfast Links: Before and after
Bye-bye GEORGE; Free State out of free space for roads; If you build it…; …Get private industry to pay for it; Maybe if Oklahoma had a rail system…; …Coburn would still block safety. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Senatorial outrage
Mikulski wants a change; Coburn “doesn’t get bikes”; Not enough time for peds and drivers; How about an app for that; Ticket yourself; Bike into the office. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Government keeping you down
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Breakfast links: Routes to school and the route for a school
Bright future for Hine; Stifling routes to school?; Buses vs. people; Camper bike; Wisconsin without Circulator?; Not your father’s affordable housing; McCain, Coburn: Everything but highways is “wasteful”. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: hardball negotiations
PG United? DC United’s owner has announced his intention to move the team to Prince George’s County, though he has no firm deal yet. Owner Victor McFarlane wanted DC to pay 75% of the cost of the new stadium, the Post writes, potentially costing DC up to $225 million in public money. McFarlane also offered to “let” DC use some of the tax revenue from ticket and… Keep reading…
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Senate “cutters” adding spending they like, removing programs they don’t
Senators Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Susan Collins (R-ME) are leading a small group of centrist Senators which, reportedly, is trying to cut the stimulus by about $100 billion. Supposedly, they feel the stimulus is too large. But according to a memo obtained by The Plum Line, they’re also adding in some items as well. Keep reading…
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Schrag on Kojo
The Great Society Subway author Zachary Schrag appeared on the Kojo Nnamdi show on WAMU last Wednesday, comparing Metro’s current expansion debate with the debates when Metro was being built. Keep reading…
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Busy editor, busy trains
I won’t be able to post much the rest of the week. But here are some links to keep you entertained: Keep reading…