Posts tagged Government
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Nobody walks or bikes because there are no paths, so paths are a waste of money
Some members of Congress are reluctant to spend transportation money on walking and bicycling infrastructure, because in their communities, few walk or bike. Few walk or bike, however, because those communities never spent transportation money on walking and bicycling infrastructure. Keep reading…
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Stimulus compromise won’t cut transit
Our calls and lobbying made an impact. The “moderate” Senators crafting a stimulus compromise decided to leave transportation funding as is in the stimulus. Things can always change, but at the moment, it looks like there won’t be cuts to the transit funding, Boxer/Inhofe won’t add $50 billion more for highways, and Bond won’t cut high-speed rail. Keep reading…
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Thomas: Brooklanders support the Small Area Plan 50 to 1
According to a message on the Brookland email list, “Councilmember Thomas stated at a meeting on Wednesday that his mail is running 50 to 1 in favor of the Small Area Plan as submitted by Office of Planning.” While a vocal group of people vehemently oppose the plan on the neighborhood list, if that report is true, most residents of the area are enthusiastic about the opportunity… 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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Sustainable Transportation Five, please step forward
Five unnamed but heroic Democratic Senators refused to support Boxer and Inhofe’s amendment to add $50 billion in highway spending to the stimulus. According to Streetsblog, they insisted on these criteria: Keep reading…
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Oh, right, the environment
Because this is an important issue, I’m splitting the stimulus section out of the lunch links. See the comments there for previous comments on the stimulus. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Glass houses
Was the ice cube a negotiating tactic? Many blogs already linked to the Post’s complete set of prior designs for the Georgetown Apple store. The first design resembles the final design quite remarkably. The ANC rejected the original design as having too much glass. Did Apple simply then propose some ridiculous designs to convince the ANC to accept something sensible? Tip:… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Barbaras behaving badly, and other Capitol drama
Bond(age) and Crap(o): Senator Christopher Bond (R-MO) plans to introduce two more amendments to strip transit funding from the stimulus and give it to highways. One would eliminate the high-speed rail corridor program entirely. The other, cosponsored by Senators Boxer (yes, Boxer again), Baucus, Cochran, Voinovich, Bayh, Brownback and Crapo, would cut all the money in the “supplementary… Keep reading…
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Boxer to ask for $50 billion more for highways
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is ready to throw in the towel on America’s future. Friends of the Earth has just learned that she and global warming denier James Inhofe (R-OK) will introduce an amendment to add $50 billion in highway-only funding to the Senate’s version of the stimulus. Keep reading…
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Amtrak arrests man for taking photos for Amtrak’s photo contest
Stephen Colbert reports. Keep reading…