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Roadbuilding

Kirk Landers: Editor Emeritus

As we give thanks to the industry advocates who were able to get Congress to designate the fuel tax as a pure user fee, let us also resolve to protect his status with every future transportation bill, no matter how disappointing it is in every other regard.

September 7, 2012

Construction Equipment

Final Word

Dodging an unpleasant reality   By Kirk Landers     While the news media and political partisans obsessed over the Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutionality of Obamacare in late June, a House/Senate conference committee ended a 1,000-day-plus national disgrace by agreeing to a two-year (actually, 27-month) transportation act. The new act ended several years […]

August 3, 2012

Roadbuilding

Kirk Landers, Editor Emeritus

Unfortunately for the Highway Trust Fund — but perhaps fortunately for our Republic — corporate thinking is necessarily short term and focused on rapid, direct paybacks.

February 17, 2012

Roadbuilding

Kirk Landers, Editor Emeritus

Unfortunately for the Highway Trust Fund — but perhaps fortunately for our Republic — corporate thinking is necessarily short term and focused on rapid, direct paybacks.

February 17, 2012

Roadbuilding

Final Word

It’s the jobs, stupid By Kirk Landers One of those teaser heads on an Internet news site in January relayed the wisdom of our times in a few pithy words: “It’s About Employment, Stupid.” This play on the famous campaign manager’s admonition to then presidential candidate Bill Clinton led to a political column whose author […]

March 2, 2011

Roadbuilding

Kirk Landers

We citizens need a better model for our government than corporate America. Government isn’t a business.

November 1, 2010

Roadbuilding

Kirk Landers

We citizens need a better model for our government than corporate America. Government isn’t a business.

November 1, 2010

Roadbuilding

Kirk Landers

We citizens need a better model for our government than corporate America. Government isn’t a business.

November 1, 2010

Construction Equipment

Final Word

Staying focused By Kirk Landers America’s national non-debate over highway policy got a new infusion of fantasy in April. The first and most disillusioning one came from the Obama administration. It was a too-familiar chorus on the fantastic potential for public-private funding ventures to solve our transportation crisis. This, of course, is a red herring […]

June 7, 2010

Roadbuilding

Kirk Landers: New times, new tactics

We need to take our message to the people who use the streets and highways and bridges we build and maintain.

March 1, 2010

Maintenance

Final Word

Keep the truth in circulation   By Kirk Landers   In early January an organization called the Earth Policy Institute released a report noting that the automobile population in the United States declined in 2009 for the first time since World War II, thanks to a precipitous drop in new car sales. The group concluded […]

February 24, 2010

Roadbuilding

Kirk Landers: How much is too much?

A 25-cents-per gallon kick to the U.S. federal fuel tax starts to look attractive, whether you’re a small government conservative or a tax-and-spend liberal or just someone who wants to get to work without loss of body parts, human or automotive

February 1, 2010