16th United States Secretary of Transportation
View in your browser. Weekly John Locke Foundation research division newsletter focusing on environmental issues. The newsletter highlights relevant analysis done by the JLF and other think tanks as well…
Last week CJ’s Michael Lowrey analyzed what he described as the ‘kudzu of transit projects’—- the proposed a $452 million, 25-mile commuter rail line from the center of Charlotte through…
If you believe that the failure of the supercommittee means the end of life as we know it, as the MSM wants us to believe, you need to read this…
By now you’ve heard, but I can’t let it pass: A 1.5 mile streetcar line at a cost of $25 million. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says it will become an…
Stephen Hayes‘ latest Weekly Standard article explains how two new Midwestern governors ? elected at least in part because of voters’ concerns about federal plans to use stimulus dollars for…
Leave it to Official Charlotte to completely miss the big story in Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood saying that the Obama administration intends to stiff newly elected Republican governors who doubt…
I mentioned North Carolina in passing when taking a quick look at Antiplanner’s analysis of the election’s effect on transportation planning. Now we hear that Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was…
Outgoing Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle (D) and Obama Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood have teamed to poison the fiscal health of Wisconsin for incoming governor Scott Walker (R) with last-minute contracts…
View in your browser. 1. County voters send an anti-tax message again! Last night voters rejected tax increases in all 14 counties with tax increases on the ballot. It was…
Greensboro’s $26 million greenway is not on the list of federal grant winners announced by DOT Secretary Ray LaHood: ..(G)rants were awarded to projects that have a significant impact on…
Patrick Simmons, director of the Rail Division of NCDOT, writes this op-ed in the N&O that takes someone, possibly me, to task for spreading misinformation about the high-speed rail project…
The debate over “high-speed” rail has come to Raleigh as neighborhoods are now fighting to keep the proposed train route away from their homes. In this piece, JLF’s Michael Sanera…