Transportation
Your 2016 SCASDP grant applications
The Small Community Air Service Development Program is a small federal grant program to encourage, as the name suggests, more flights to smaller cities. It’s pretty much pork, but of…
Shreveport
parish seat of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States
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Top unserved air markets from CLT
On this travel day for many, here’s a list of the largest unserved domestic air markets within a 1,050 mile radius from Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Ranks are based upon…
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Your ACC bowl update
Care of Joe Giglio of the Raleigh News & Observer, is available here. Let’s say thinks are still not well sorted: N.C. State could play in the Belk Bowl in…
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Possible new routes from CLT
Based upon Small Community Air Service Development Program grant requests and news reports, the following cities seem interested in adding flights to Charlotte: • Springfield, MO (Airport code: SGF). Got…
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More concern about wasteful government than inequality
Whatever you think about TIME columnist Joe Klein‘s political acumen, he deserves credit for his willingness to travel across the country and meet with voters of varying political views. A…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Even Louisiana media question film incentives
An editorial from the Shreveport Times about Louisiana’s film incentives hits on some of the same criticisms I have of North Carolina’s film incentives: We all enjoy seeing the movie…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
A brief explanation of the problem with tariffs
Economic historian John Steele Gordon offers Commentary readers the following assessment (subscriber link) of tariffs while responding to a reader’s criticism of an earlier article: Tariffs are a tax ultimately…
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Baton Rouge and All That
As promised, an analysis US Airways’ growth possibilities in the south and southeast. Charlotte is US Airways’ main hub for serving secondary markets in the southeastern and southern U.S. Most…
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US Airways to Melbourne
As in Melbourne, Florida. Three flights a day. Begins in February. The airline had previously served Melbourne from 1989 to 1997. Bonus Analysis: US Airways last went on a Florida…
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It’s a zoo
The national scene…. This should strike fear in the hearts of millions of men: SHREVEPORT, La. Jan 17, 2007 (AP)— In a mysterious bit of monkey business, a female at…