The Obama administration is warning lawmakers that the trust fund that pays for highway construction will go broke in August unless Congress approves an infusion of money. Here's a look at the numbers that will shape the debate: ...more

June 3, 2009

The Pittsburgh Steelers weren't the only big winners when the game ended Sunday night. Tampa scored as a Super Bowl host, departing football fans said. ...more

February 3, 2009

Motorists are driving less and buying less gasoline, which means fuel taxes aren't raising enough money to keep pace with the cost of road, bridge and transit programs. ...more

January 2, 2009

Thousands of commuters got a rude wake-up call Monday as they headed south on State Road 60: a massive traffic jam caused by an exit that was switched overnight from one side of the road to the other. ...more

September 16, 2008

Taxpayers shouldn't have to subsidize corporate tax dodgers or bloated CEO salaries. ...more

August 31, 2008

Central Pasco's home-building boom may have ended for the moment, but the road-building boom is only beginning. ...more

June 12, 2008

only beginning. Wesley Chapel road projects dominate the latest list of highway construction scheduled to kick off between this fall and early 2013. The project roster will go before a public hearing at 10 a.m. today when the Metropolitan Planning Organization, the county's transportation planning agency, meets at the historic Pasco County Courthouse in Dade City. MPO director Doug Uden said the list ensures a given project will get state or county funds during the five-year window for anything from preliminary engineering to construction. Most of the road projects take several years to go from start to finish. ...more

June 11, 2008

How do you respond to emotional statements about coal mining that overstate reality? Many statements in the Tribune's Feb. 18 editorial ("Put An End To Mountaintop Mining") were simply false. ...more

February 25, 2008

Despite the lack of commuter traffic this morning, the northbound trip on Interstate 275 through Tampa crept along at less than 20 mph, with frequent stops among the three lanes of traffic caused in part by misleading information on highway construction message signs. ...more

February 23, 2008