The U.S. Navy says it plans to buy 15 hulking “battleships” over the next 30 years. The number of such behemoths it actually needs comes closer to zero. The sooner Congress recognizes that fact, the ...

The US Navy says it plans to buy 15 hulking “battleships” over the next 30 years. The number of such behemoths it actually needs comes closer to zero. The sooner Congress recognizes that fact, the ...

The current daily cost, more than $700 per person, only sounds like the rate for some luxury hotel. Put it this way: In just six months, more than $92 million in taxpayer dollars went to a porta-potty ...

Virtually everyone who has looked at “Alligator Alcatraz” with a critical eye has reached the same conclusion: It was a bad idea that was executed even worse. For starters, the state made a hasty ...

The Golden State has more than one transit "boondoggle" to wrestle with. Another blighted project seeking to connect the Bay Area with the San Joaquin Valley — the Valley Link Rail Project — has seen ...

On the heels of another debate among California’s candidates for governor, the state received more bad news about the failing high-speed rail project. Any serious candidate for governor should commit ...

The “boondoggle” could be no more. Gov. Mikie Sherrill proposed terminating New Jersey’s controversial $48 million-a-year mental health initiative known as NJ4S — slammed as a “boondoggle” by one ...

In the fight between President Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over the $16 billion boondoggle Gateway Hudson River rail tunnel, being heard in federal courtrooms in New York and D.C., ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 13, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Front page flashback: Feb. 14, 1861 ...

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Johnny Kampis’ op-ed casts open-access municipal broadband in a negative light while implicitly defending a telecom monopoly model that has failed rural Californians. Approximately 26.5% of rural ...