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Driving the immigration debate: licenses for the undocumented

By | 11.16.10 | 9:27 am

Here in Washington, D.C., public transportation’s pretty good — you can get basically anywhere you need to go by Metro or bus. But the vast majority of the country doesn’t enjoy that luxury. People in places like, say, Utah and New Mexico need to drive in order to go about More…

Senate Eyes Public Transit as Climate Change Solution

By | 07.15.09 | 12:48 am

Federal strategies for tackling climate change are doomed to fail without concerted efforts to keep Americans out of their cars — efforts that will necessarily include a greater emphasis on public transit, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told Senate lawmakers Tuesday.

The statement arrives just a few weeks after House lawmakers More…

Donald Rumsfeld Tries and Fails to Ride the Bus

By | 02.02.09 | 4:21 pm

There once was a time when former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was considered a visionary. His sweet-tooth for technology in warfare won him sexualized praise from other conservative men’s wives. The trouble is that Rumsfeld, among other things, is a fraud who doesn’t actually understand the first More…