November 22, 2024

Part One:
Mother Jones’ Reporter Pema Levy describes the reality of the GOP policy ‘s dream…in an article entitled: What would happen if GOP actually repealed Obamacare (utter chaos is an understatement)
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/what-would-happen-if-gop-actually-repealed-obamacare
also read:
3 Republicans say no as House again votes Obamacare repeal
They are the first Republicans ever to vote against an Obamacare repeal.
more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/3-republicans-say-no-as-house-again-votes-obamacare-repeal-114882.html

Part Two:
the transportation edition
-we chat with Streetsblog’s Angie Schmidt. Streetsblog is  a daily news source connecting people to information about sustainable transportation and livable communities.

Obama’s new transportation budget
http://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/02/02/obamas-new-transportation-budget-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

Koch funded groups cut all federal funding for walking biking transit
http://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/01/29/koch-funded-groups-cut-all-federal-funding-for-walking-biking-transit/

  Angie Schmitt is a newspaper reporter-turned planner/advocate who manages the Streetsblog Network from glamorous Cleveland, Ohio. She also writes about urban issues particular to the industrial Midwest at Rustwire.com.