Last night, CEOs for Cities attended a reception at the Dirksen Senate Office building hosted by Transportation for America. More than 100 business leaders attended the event as part of T4A's national campaign to mobilize major U.S. employers in support of their agenda for the federal Transportation Reauthorization…

You have to appreciate the theater associated with closing 7,000+ Starbucks for three hours today to re-train staff. It can't be terribly efficient, training 135,000 employees at once (unless it is self-training out of a manual). But it does show a flare for the dramatic. (While they are at at,…