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A $600 million budget gap could lead to trimming 2,000 state jobs, not to mention other cost-cutting measures. [Boston Globe]...The Mass. unemployment rate jumped to 9.2% in September, which might mean the Bay State is still in a recession. [Boston Herald]...Potential amendments to the state's transportation reform bill could eliminate some of the saving that was the purpose of the reforms. [Boston Herald]

LivableStreets, a group dedicated to making our streets more, well, livable, hosted a StreetTALK with transportation engineer Gary Toth on Thursday. The talk raised a lot of questions but also provided a lot of answers regarding how communities can make their streets shared spaces where both people and cars can function.