yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 12/15/2008
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Alec MacGillis and Michael D. Shear have an interesting story about tension between different visions of infrastructure spending and, in particular, the difficulty of combining a transformative vision of infrastructure with the need for stimulus to be fast-acting. To make a long story short, ...
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 12/17/2008
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Talks have broken down between DC's transit authority
and Google over displaying system information on Google Transit. ...
The magnificent Tom Lee explains it all .
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Farewell, Google Transit
talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/13/2008
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From the Journal (sub.req.) ... The publisher of
the Detroit Free Press, the country's 20th largest paper...
by weekday circulation, is expected to announce next week that it will cease home delivery of the print edition of the newspaper on most ...
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Eschaton —
Matt's correct that while you can just start putting down track for SUPERTRAINS everywhere, there are plenty of mass transit-related projects that can be implemented fairly quickly. Some of them are pretty unsexy, such as station refurbishment, and some of them, such as buying new SUPERTRAIN capital stock, wouldn't see results right away but would still act as an economic stimulus.
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