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Is the Glass One-Quarter Full or Three-Quarters Empty?

In the months before Utah began rebuilding its major north-south interstate, a public relations firm chose “’Satch” to guide motorists through the coming years of highway turmoil. Named after the…

The Unappreciated World of Highway Finance

Roads triggered rage long before obscenities and gunfire encroached on the daily urban commute, especially in the vast and empty landscapes of the American West. Good roads are still rare…

In all the years that Al Foster has lived in northern Michigan, every one who knows the 69-year-old dairy farmer describes him as tough, respected and rational. Foster, the supervisor…

It was a tired old column that Boston Globe editors killed in 1991. “Starts & Stops” had run for a couple of years weekly in the Metro/Region section, starting out…

Peter M. Zuk is the Project Director for what we refer to as the largest public works project under way in the United States, the Big Dig. Except for the…

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