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Author: Randal O'Toole
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Randal O'Toole

Randal O’Toole is a land-use and transportation policy analyst with the Thoreau Institute and author of American Nightmare: How Government Undermines the Dream of Homeownership.
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A National Failure

Randal O'Toole April 1, 2006 November 18, 2020

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 …

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Can Trains Be Saved?

Randal O'Toole April 1, 2006 November 18, 2020

Like many libertarians attracted to transportation policy –  Reason founder Robert Poole comes to mind – I love trains, especially passenger trains. So Amtrak is …

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On the Wrong Track

Randal O'Toole March 1, 2006 November 18, 2020

I strongly support efficient urban transit systems, but transit officials seem intent on giving people more reasons not to ride transit: • In Denver, a …

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Fraud In The Forest

Randal O'Toole January 1, 2003 November 18, 2020

Waste, fraud, and abuse of accounting standards are in the news – and not just at Enron and WorldCom. For decades, the Forest Service claimed …

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Super Bowl, Super Bunk

Randal O'Toole April 1, 2002 November 18, 2020

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 …

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The New Recycling

Randal O'Toole April 1, 2002 November 18, 2020

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. …

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Credit Where Credit Ain’t Due

Randal O'Toole January 1, 2002 November 18, 2020

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 …

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Sprawl is Good for Salmon

Randal O'Toole January 1, 2002 November 18, 2020

-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 …

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Paving the 50 States

Randal O'Toole October 16, 1970 December 2, 2020

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 …

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