Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Hillary Clinton

Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton: Where Is the Leadership?

By Brad Aaron | Apr 30, 2008 | 11 Comments

Joining Hillary Clinton in the push to reduce the federal gas tax is fellow New York Senator Chuck Schumer, who has railed about gas prices at least since they "soared" to $1.59 per gallon. As Politico reports, rather than talking about climate change and auto dependence, Schumer is pushing a Democratic plan to go after […]

Obama’s National Transportation Plan Includes Bicycling & Walking

By Damien Newton | Feb 27, 2008 | 12 Comments

Democratic front runner Barack Obama just released a campaign "Fact Sheet" entitled, "Strengthening America’s Transportation Infrastructure" (download it). While Hillary Clinton has put forward some outstanding and heavily transit-oriented plans of her own, Obama appears to be the first major party presidential candidate to outline a national transportation platform that explicitly seeks to "create policies […]

Who is the Livable Streets Candidate?

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 5, 2008 | 13 Comments

It’s Super Duper Tuesday, primary election day here in New York. If you’re still mulling your options and trying to figure out who the best candidate on Livable Streets issues is, Damien Newton of Street Heat L.A. and the editor of soon-to-be-launched Streetsblog Los Angeles, dug up the positions of the Democrats and Republicans for […]

Would Dems’ Pledge for “Change” Bring Transportation Reform?

By Damien Newton | Jan 30, 2008 | 20 Comments

Hillary Clinton ad now airing in Southern California This is part two of a two-part series on where candidates for president stand on transportation issues, authored by Streetsblog Los Angeles correspondent Damien Newton. Damien currently runs the blog Street Heat, which is soon to become Streetsblog L.A., our first foray into foreign territory. Damien was […]

Schumer & Clinton Backing Upstate NIMBY’s Against Wind Power

By Jason Varone | Feb 28, 2007 | 8 Comments

Newsday reports: A high-voltage transmission line running through Central New York could spur the creation of environmentally friendly wind farms across the state, according to Bill May, project manager for the Albany-based New York Regional Interconnect Inc., who hopes to build the line. However, there is intense opposition coming from many upstate residents. Perhaps that […]

Hillary Feels Staten Island’s Pain on Traffic

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 14, 2006 | 3 Comments

While transportation issues are clearly not very high up on Mayor Bloomberg’s agenda, at least one New York elected official is acknowledging that the city has major traffic problems in need of big solutions. At last week’s Staten Island Chamber of Commerce breakfast, Clinton focused almost exclusively on transportation issues, according to the Advance: From scorning Staten […]