Today’s Headlines
Don’t Celebrate Measure R’s Passage Just Yet (Bottleneck Blog) Dem Leaders Insist on Propping Up Detroit With Bailout Funds; Obama May Agree (NYT, NYT) Al Gore Urges Obama to Speed Development of Plug-in Hybrids (NYT) Robert Reich: Ambitious Infrastructure Spending Needed to Turn Around Economy (TPM) Reasons to Be Happy Obama Chose Emanuel (Streetsblog) Higher … Continued
9:29 AM PST on November 10, 2008
- Don’t Celebrate Measure R’s Passage Just Yet (Bottleneck Blog)
- Dem Leaders Insist on Propping Up Detroit With Bailout Funds; Obama May Agree (NYT, NYT)
- Al Gore Urges Obama to Speed Development of Plug-in Hybrids (NYT)
- Robert Reich: Ambitious Infrastructure Spending Needed to Turn Around Economy (TPM)
- Reasons to Be Happy Obama Chose Emanuel (Streetsblog)
- Higher Parking Rates Mocked (KNBC)
- Bike-Share Sweeping Across Europe, Making Inroads in North America (NYT)
- Bus Ridership Still Rising (Whittier Daily News)
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