Lattatudes

Brooke Wisdom - Nov 01, 2010

Back at Rick's By John Latta, Editor-in-Chief You could gamble at Rick’s. So here’s a bet. I’ll wager that in the years ahead when our decaying infrastructure chickens come home to roost some of the most vocal outcries will come from the very ...

Yet more states are thinking outside the public funding box

John Latta - Sep 20, 2010

Wanna buy a road? Two more states are reacting to the inevitable. They must have money for roads but the usual sources are inadequate. Privatization and tolling are coming up again and again as the default option. As Congress leads the ...

We’ll drive further per gallon – but on what?

John Latta - Sep 08, 2010

So you know this story by heart. It goes like this: The Highway Trust Fund relies primarily on income from fuel taxes. Its hopelessly short of funds because the gas tax is too low and politicians won't raise it. And of ...

Lattatudes

Brooke Wisdom - Sep 01, 2010

A Back Door Solution? Politics, ah politics. You can smell it. 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. But what ...

Financial District: Doing the fuel tax two step

Brooke Wisdom - May 01, 2010

Doing the Fuel Tax Two Step Controversial climate and energy tax may threaten reauthorization By John Latta What I think has been feared for some time came to pass in Washington in April. There was a move, a bipartisan one at that, to ...

Financial District

Brooke Wisdom - Apr 01, 2010

Back to business for now The so-called “jobs bill” may disguise some reauthorization dilemmas By John Latta It was almost audible. The sigh of relief that followed the passage of the so-called “jobs bill”, actually the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act, was ...

Kirk Landers: The sky would not fall this time either

Brooke Wisdom - Dec 01, 2009

The sky would not fall this time either Signs of the apocalypse were unmistakable in 1993. An epic late winter storm lashed the entire U.S. East Coast with high winds, Biblical snows and Arctic cold. Birmingham, Ala., took 70 mph winds, 13 ...

Kirk Landers — Leadership, please.

Brooke Wisdom - Oct 01, 2009

You’re a First Lieutenant, and you just received orders to lead your platoon on an uphill assault of an enemy position.Most of the platoon members will die. You almost certainly will die because you must be in the front wave. ...

Kirk Landers: Lobbyists, lawyers and taxes

Brooke Wisdom - Jul 01, 2009

Lobbyists, lawyers and taxes By Kirk Landers Several of the people I admire most in the world are lobbyists. I know, that’s a shameful admission in today’s America, where lobbyists rank with lawyers, slightly above people who have committed violent crimes against ...

Kirk Landers: Stepping in it

Brooke Wisdom - May 01, 2009

Stepping in it By Kirk Landers Reports covering the appearance of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood before the Senate Environment and Infrastructure Committee in March conjured up the image of a joke that was a hit on the playgrounds of my youth. ...

Kirk Landers: Where we are now

Brooke Wisdom - Feb 01, 2009

Where we are now By Kirk Landers Last month, as all eyes were on the economic stimulus package being worked on by Congress and the incoming Obama Administration, Ken Orski published a summary of what the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission ...

Kirk Landers: The war on failure

Brooke Wisdom - Jan 01, 2009

The war on failure By Kirk Landers In early December, President-elect Barack Obama commanded front-page headlines by unveiling general aspects of what promises to be a massive infrastructure renewal package. In the run up to press time for this issue, it appeared ...

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