Members of Congress, or least the vast majority of them, won’t consider a higher fuel tax to fund a new surface transportation bill. Without it, any bill would be inadequate.

Ask candidates and challengers if they will commit to stand, proudly, front and center, on their road funding record at the next election when roads have fallen further into disrepair, ...

Bridges, Thomas Paine would say, are a way to bring men together in pursuit of their future. v

One answer for the future is a long-term strategy that educates our children so that by the time they are voters they will have a very good understanding of the ...

History shows us that when companies fail to change they can be undone very quickly, and sometimes the rigidity comes not from an inability to change or even an unwillingness ...

The fight against our economic winter goes on. Within it, our attitude may be one of the most important weapons we can carry, and use.

We must continue to fight to survive the recession, but at the same time prepare for the new game that is coming.

Innovations are physical evidence of optimism at work.

The highway and bridge construction industries are struggling to operate the way they instinctively know how.

One of the most disturbing aspects of the delay in passing a new surface transportation act is the curious idea held in the administration and the senate that a delay, ...

I remember the days before computers changed everything. Newspapers and magazines had set forms and ideas about content that didn’t change very much over the decades. But now publishing is ...

In the early decades of last century, life in the American democracy began to get increasing modern and at the same time increasingly complicated. The news media’s role was changing and ...