Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Robert Puentes

Bachmann: It’s Not an Earmark If It’s for Highways and Bridges

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 18, 2010 | 10 Comments

The first phase of the lame duck ends today. Has Congress done the heavy lifting of finding consensus on extending tax cuts, or unemployment benefits, or Medicare physician payments, or the surface transportation authorization, or the federal budget? No. But they named a few post offices. And they re-elected their same leaders to keep on […]

What Washington Can Do For — And Alongside — Metro Area Planners

By Elana Schor | Oct 14, 2009 | No Comments

At one point midway through yesterday’s Brookings Institution forum on metropolitan planning, moderator Chris Leinberger quipped that Portland was deliberately not represented. It’s not that Portland isn’t a model of sustainability, he explained, but that "we all have Portland fatigue" — that urban policy thinkers are eager to expand the models of local development beyond […]