By learning to see themselves as customers and investors--rather than mere users--of roads and highways, Americans should expect to receive a reasonable return on their investment: thorough, effective maintenance of America's transportation infrastructure.

A concrete plan to rebuild the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis that promises efficiency and results, not greater burdens on Minnesota's taxpayers.

Hurricane Katrina shattered the stability of intergenerational poverty, adults disconnected from work, and children without fathers. In its wake it left immense personal tragedy, but also opportunity.

The privatization of roads would be a long-term solution to improving our transportation infastructure.

For every Democrat you show me who is not a Republican, I'll show you a Republican who's not a Republican.

The President and Congress must cut low priority spending and wasteful programs to offset the new hurricane relief spending increase.

My first recoverable memory is of sitting on the back porch under candlelight in the spring of 1936, the evening after the flood of that year, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

Areview of what the government is doing to respond to the Gulf Coast devastation in order to assess the adequacy and cost-effectiveness of the response.