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A passenger walks on the platform of the Metrorail train next to the air-traffic control tower at Reagan National Airport in Washington.
Congressmen: Not My Tower
Few issues in Congress inspire more bipartisan agreement than the notion that every air-traffic control tower is indispensable, regardless of the amount of work controllers have to do. As Bloomberg News reported in November, Congress has for years pressured the...
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Construction workers in Los Angeles, California.
U.S. Role in Highways Questioned, Answered
The determination to really, finally agree on a long-term plan for highway, waterways and rail improvements and figure out how to pay for them will be on display this week — regardless of whether President Barack Obama makes that perennial...
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The Port of Baltimore in Maryland, which could be part of the strike on Dec. 29.
Obama Dilemma: Anger Union Allies or Aggravate Cliff’s Recession
If faced with a choice between invoking a law union leaders once called the “slave-labor bill,” or aggravating a recession by allowing shipments of clothing, auto parts and other goods to stop at ports from Maine to Texas at the...
Read more »Car Battery-Maker’s Bankruptcy: `Loser’ Fodder for Romney Debate
Have Republicans finally found their electric-car “loser?” Today’s bankruptcy filing by A123 Systems Inc. may give the Romney-Ryan campaign, just in time for tonight’s presidential debate, a company that fits the label that it’s tried to hang on other recipients...
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