Willamette Week yesterday put up a short, skeptical story on the state’s experiment in a GPS-based mileage tax. The piece provides a nice overview of just why many reasonable people find the idea to be — shall we be kind? — of questionable merit.
For those unfamiliar with the concept, the Oregon Department of Transportation has [...]

Parade Magazine this weekend highlighted passenger rail’s future and the debate over Amtrak funding. Many Amtrak press articles end up being way off base, either making Amtrak out to be a saint persecuted by the Eeeeevil Bush Administration, or to be a big pork-barrel project that exists solely to put public money into union employee [...]