Comments on: Today’s Headlines http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/01/25/todays-headlines-91/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Chesler http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/01/25/todays-headlines-91/comment-page-1/#comment-27599 David Chesler Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:19:00 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/01/25/todays-headlines-91/#comment-27599 Old truism that whenever you want to raise money, you float a bond issue for the construction of the Second Avenue Subway. Old truism that whenever you want to raise money, you float a bond issue for the construction of the Second Avenue Subway.

]]> By: AD http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/01/25/todays-headlines-91/comment-page-1/#comment-27470 AD Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:48:11 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/01/25/todays-headlines-91/#comment-27470 Angus, great find. Yeah, too late for Christmas ... 1956. Angus, great find. Yeah, too late for Christmas … 1956.

]]> By: AD http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/01/25/todays-headlines-91/comment-page-1/#comment-27469 AD Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:42:15 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/01/25/todays-headlines-91/#comment-27469 Whenever you see someone attacking the messenger rather than the message, you know that the attacker has no leg to stand on, as is the case with the Wisconsin State Journal. The paper clearly has no argument with the ideas put forth (like taxing gas guzzlers), or they wouldn't resort to ad hominem attacks on the people behind the ideas. They're just "loony"! Whenever you see someone attacking the messenger rather than the message, you know that the attacker has no leg to stand on, as is the case with the Wisconsin State Journal. The paper clearly has no argument with the ideas put forth (like taxing gas guzzlers), or they wouldn’t resort to ad hominem attacks on the people behind the ideas. They’re just “loony”!

]]> By: Doc Barnett http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/01/25/todays-headlines-91/comment-page-1/#comment-27447 Doc Barnett Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:44:10 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/01/25/todays-headlines-91/#comment-27447 The Wisconsin State Journal's parallel between left and right wing "doomsday" extremism (peak oil vs. left behind) is interesting. And the way they use "gas-guzzling" and "gas-hog" as if they weren't pejorative is amusing. Overall, the tone of the editorial for the free reign of automobiles is resignation to defeat, so I guess we should be cheering. The Wisconsin State Journal’s parallel between left and right wing “doomsday” extremism (peak oil vs. left behind) is interesting. And the way they use “gas-guzzling” and “gas-hog” as if they weren’t pejorative is amusing. Overall, the tone of the editorial for the free reign of automobiles is resignation to defeat, so I guess we should be cheering.

]]> By: Angus Grieve-Smith http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/01/25/todays-headlines-91/comment-page-1/#comment-27446 Angus Grieve-Smith Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:40:33 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/01/25/todays-headlines-91/#comment-27446 The Second Avenue Subway groundbreaking is a little late for Christmas! http://books.google.com/books?id=nFdOG5JxWZoC&pg=RA3-PA161&lpg=RA3-PA161&source=web&ots=mZo08UE_Ge&sig=RIFa-qu5xsMyXijmDswSMHmQIdE The Second Avenue Subway groundbreaking is a little late for Christmas!

http://books.google.com/books?id=nFdOG5JxWZoC&pg=RA3-PA161&lpg=RA3-PA161&source=web&ots=mZo08UE_Ge&sig=RIFa-qu5xsMyXijmDswSMHmQIdE

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