Amtrak lost money on 41 of its 45 train lines in 2008, including a $145.23 per passenger loss on the Silver Star that serves Tampa on its New York-Miami run, a Pew Charitable Trusts research group reported Tuesday. ...more

October 27, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday restored the Air Force's authority to select the winner of a $35 billion contract for aerial refueling tankers between Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. ...more

September 16, 2009

With only a month left in the state legislative session, the going has gotten slow for Central Florida's commuter rail project. ...more

March 31, 2009

Air Force Tanker Deal Your editorial "Long Delay In Tanker Deal Will Hurt Nation's Security" (March 17) correctly noted the profligate costs - a full tripling of the ultimate cost to taxpayers - of delaying the U.S. Air Force's acquisition of new aerial refueling tankers. And no one disagrees about the urgent need to buy new tankers. The current fleet is 50 years old. ...more

March 29, 2009

Using phony documents and the identities of a dead man and a 5-year-old boy, a government investigator obtained U.S. passports in a test of post-9/11 security. ...more

March 13, 2009

Congressional auditors say that NASA's in-house financial watchdog is doing little to unearth waste and abuse at the space agency. ...more

January 11, 2009

The government must toughen its monitoring of the $700 billion financial bailout to ensure that banking institutions limit their top executives' pay and comply with other restrictions, federal auditors said Tuesday in the first comprehensive review of the rescue package. ...more

December 2, 2008

There's a full plate of urgent issues awaiting President-elect Barack Obama and the next Congress. The Government Accountability Office, Congress' nonpartisan watchdog, listed 13 of them recently. Along with some obvious choices, such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and oversight of the financial industry, the GAO included food safety. ...more

November 19, 2008

After years of unfettered growth in military budgets, Defense Department planners, top commanders and weapons manufacturers say they are almost certain that the financial meltdown will have a serious impact on future Pentagon spending. ...more

November 4, 2008

$3.43 Average cost of using another bank's ATM $3.03 Average cost last year ...more

October 28, 2008