Congress pushes a fighter jet engine the military says it doesn't want or need. May 21, 2010 — -- President Obama says Congress has sunk billions into a military jet engine that the Defense ...

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No tickets or vouchers are needed for Downtown Milwaukee’s free streetcar service, The Hop. Riders can jump on and off to connect to shopping, entertainment, dining and more. Monday morning, The Hop ...

Senator Ashley Moody co-sponsored the Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act to highlight over-budget federal projects, promoting transparency and fiscal responsibility.

President Joe Biden has rolled out his Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) plan, which will be subsidized by $42 billion from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. That is an ...

It’s billions of dollars over budget and seven years behind schedule, and appears to have no plausible way of living up to its goal of getting riders across the state in three hours or less. Welcome ...

Prompted by an email from Miriam Gross of Brighton, I look up “boondoggle.” Webster confirms that the word was coined by Robert H. Link. I hadn’t known that until Miriam wrote. She had been alerted to ...

The $14.7 million for a new airport on an Alaskan island that averages only 42 flights a month. The half-million dollars for a new skateboard park in unemployment-ravaged Rhode Island. The $3.4 ...

While comparisons to past decades and former presidents have been a bit overplayed of late, especially around the inauguration, bear with us a moment while we mention the dark days of the 1930s again.

An ambitious plan to build a 1,600-mile railroad linking the Alaska and Canadian rail systems is on hold, and appears to be in jeopardy. A year ago, former Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell and other ...

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