The project connecting Interstate 4 to the Selmon Crosstown Expressway is running out of gas. ...more

January 29, 2009

More than 5,000 highway projects - including $980 million in the Tampa Bay area that help comprise the $7 billion dollars' worth in Florida - are ready to go, state transportation officials say, if Congress will only pony up $64.3 billion as part of an economic aid plan. ...more

December 15, 2008

Government spending is growing at an astounding pace. Congress and the president have thrown hundreds of billions into stimulus packages, domestic programs, military spending and other initiatives. Total federal spending is growing at a 13.8 percent annual rate. ...more

November 1, 2008

The draining of the trust fund for highways, and an emergency transfer of general tax dollars into it, exemplify much of what is going wrong in Washington. ...more

September 16, 2008

Republican Sen. John McCain on Tuesday called for a summer-long suspension of the federal gasoline tax and several tax cuts as the likely presidential nominee sought to stem the public's pain from a troubled economy. ...more

April 16, 2008

Construction on two highway projects at Tampa International Airport remains on schedule, and the new airport interchange could even be finished early, airport and state highway officials said Thursday. ...more

October 12, 2007

TAMPA - Construction on two highway projects at Tampa International Airport remains on schedule, airport and state highway officials said today. Completion of the state's $205 million airport interchange project is scheduled for May 2010, but incentive plans have been created for the contractor that could result in the massive bridge and highway work just outside the airport's boundary to be ready for use by fall 2009. ...more

October 11, 2007