Crypto News: Infrastructure on ice

Across the US, state departments of transportation are scrambling to determine whether they can proceed with projects funded by the Biden administration's signature infrastructure bills. Shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders attempting to claw back funds for projects connected to "climate change," "equity," and other progressive priorities.

But one prominent New York State transportation project championed by the Biden Administration is now on hold for a different reason, write Benjamin Schneider. It was part of Biden's Reconnecting Communities program, meant to address the harms caused by planners who routed freeways into historically Black and low-income communities during the urban renewal era of the 1960s. Today on CityLab: Buffalo's Billion-Dollar Freeway Fix Is on Ice, But Not Because of Trump

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What we're reading

'Startup Nation' groups say they're meeting Trump officials to push for deregulated 'Freedom Cities' (Wired)
Dramatic fall in London's levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion (Guardian)
Trump's transportation chief tells DC Mayor street murals are unsafe (Washington Post)
How two stars of the wonk left are making abundance the new Democratic buzzword (Slate)
Why is Mayor Karen Bass deleting her text messages? (LA Times)