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Reauthorization's protracted struggles

A major battle is under way over “Reauthorization,” the legislative contest to reshape federal highway and transit aid for the next six years. Most of us recall 1991’s ISTEA, and 1998’s TEA21. Now they are trying to settle the legislation for FY-2004 (which begins Oct 1 this year) to FY-2009. The Bush administration proposes a $190 billion federal-aid highway program for the six years Fiscal... MORE

Wacko mayors of London and New York

The world's two greatest cities, New York and London are both currently run by wackos - men of great intelligence and ability but with a definite crazy streak. London's Mayor Ken Livingstone is a juvenile anti-American on foreign policy issues. He absorbs the most hysterical and paranoid lines about George Bush, for example, and parrots them like some silly troubled adolescent... Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York is... a different kind of nut. MORE