Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Barack Obama

What to Look For in President Obama’s Budget Request on Monday

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 11, 2011 | No Comments

On Valentine’s Day, President Obama’s heart-shaped box of chocolates to Congress will come in the form of his budget request for 2012. It will include the president’s proposal for a six-year transportation reauthorization. The FY2012 budget request comes as Congress is still wrangling over the budget for the rest of FY2011 (which, by the way, […]

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Obama: Europe and Russia Invest More in Roads and Railways Than We Do

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 25, 2011 | No Comments

President Obama made his long-awaited infrastructure push during his State of the Union address – with more information included in an accompanying memo released today (see below). This is what he told Congress: The third step in winning the future is rebuilding America. To attract new businesses to our shores, we need the fastest, most […]

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Will President Obama Speak for the Transit-Starved Tonight?

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 25, 2011 | No Comments

President Obama is expected to make a strong push for infrastructure spending during the State of the Union address tonight. Ahead of the address, the Transportation Equity Network organized its members and supporters to write to President Obama, telling their personal stories of why transit funding is crucial to their communities. In all, TEN will […]

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How Obama Should Address Transportation in the State of the Union

By Deron Lovaas | Jan 19, 2011 | No Comments

Streetsblog Capitol Hill is pleased to publish this guest post from Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director for NRDC. The President got pulses racing in the transportation world with stirring speeches about infrastructure investment this past Labor Day and Columbus Day. And his economic advisers recently put out a thoughtful report [PDF] making the case […]

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Obama Still Believes in a Bipartisan Push for Infrastructure. Do You?

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 8, 2010 | No Comments

Last night, President Obama appeared on 60 Minutes to talk about the election results – a “shellacking,” as he’s called it – and chart the path forward. He talked a lot about infrastructure – and between the lines of some of his other comments are messages we should be paying attention to. The first thing […]

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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 […]

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