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Soon there will be an Amelia Earhart disappearing once again into the landscape. Although Atchison, Kan., is far less mysterious than a dark, engulfing space over the Pacific...

Responding to strong resistance to a GPS-based system that would track where a vehicle travels and use that information to calculate a road use fee, a task force of the...

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My cousin shows up in my mind more than she shows up on my doorstep. It's the nature of the game, I guess. Most of my relatives live in Michigan, and at best I see them once...

I always thought it was fun to picture AAA as a nice, fat Jack-O-Lantern.
When I was in grade school my mom received one of those American Automobile Association car stickers...

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a report finding that some states are still struggling with the implementation of intelligent transportation...

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So here we sit--again. It's almost like taking a long-distance flight, when the seat cushion feels more like a seat rock by hour two. We are at that point. We have been...

Now that the U.S. senators and others have the time to read the Manager’s Amendment to the surface transportation reauthorization bill passed by the Senate last month, it may...

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I do not know how the city of New York functioned without twin reflecting pools.
I mean, let’s face it, America’s closest thing to the center of the universe has a world of...

Last week I authored a blog on a Chicago Tribune investigation on the Illinois Tollway's use of overtime pay. Here is the agency's response:
Dear Editor:
We...

Last week I authored a blog on a Chicago Tribune investigation on the Illinois Tollway's use of overtime pay. Here is the agency's response:
Dear Editor:
We...

Last week I authored a blog on a Chicago Tribune investigation on the Illinois Tollway's use of overtime pay. Here is the agency's response:
Dear Editor:
We...

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During heated House deliberations last week, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) called the Republican party a bunch of "bozos" for the way they have handled highway funding over the...

American taxpayers deserve a better Congress. Like the old Keystone Kops of silent films a hundred years ago, the members of our House of Representatives couldn’t quite...

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