A National Failure
According to the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, the federal government purchased 25,000 trailers at a cost of nearly $900 million as …
Can Trains Be Saved?
Like many libertarians attracted to transportation policy – Reason founder Robert Poole comes to mind – I love trains, especially passenger trains. So Amtrak is …
On the Wrong Track
I strongly support efficient urban transit systems, but transit officials seem intent on giving people more reasons not to ride transit: • In Denver, a …
Fraud In The Forest
Waste, fraud, and abuse of accounting standards are in the news – and not just at Enron and WorldCom. For decades, the Forest Service claimed …
Super Bowl, Super Bunk
Each year, the Super Bowl features some of the most interesting (and expensive) advertising on television. This year, however, viewers were subjected to numerous annoying …
The New Recycling
The John Locke Foundation reports that North Carolina is using some of its tobacco lawsuit money to subsidize a tobacco processing facility in Nash County. …
Credit Where Credit Ain’t Due
Sprawlwatch,” an anti-suburb group, recently issued a report claiming that the suburbs are bad for our health. Americans’ are obese, the report says, therefore suburbs …
Sprawl is Good for Salmon
-For a-decade, Oregon has been pushing cities to concentrate their residents in high-density housing. But now the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) says that the …
Paving the 50 States
Fifty years ago, President Eisenhower signed the bill creating the Interstate Highway System, one of the most successful federal programs ever. Interstates opened up the …