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Angela Glover Blackwell on Equity, Infrastructure, and the President

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 14, 2010 | No Comments

On Monday, President Obama talked infrastructure with two governors, eight mayors, four former transportation secretaries (and the current one), two labor leaders – and one public interest advocate. That advocate was Angela Glover Blackwell, founder of the think tank PolicyLink and chair of the Transportation for America Equity Caucus, which launched last week. The roundtable […]

Stimulus + Mass Transit = Opportunity

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 3, 2009 | 3 Comments

I generally avoid cable news like the plague but I’ve been tuning in lately hoping to find some interesting discussion of the federal stimulus bill. Despite my low expectations of the medium I’ve been amazed by the inanity, the lack of substance and the incredible amount of Republican demagoguery being allowed to make it onto […]