Roads Plan Passes for Now: Detours Are Likely As the Less-Than-Desired Transportation Bill Heads to the Governor's Desk.
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By Hugh Lessig And Kimball Payne, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Feb. 25--RICHMOND -- State lawmakers Saturday passed what they admitted was a flawed transportation spending plan. Attention now shifts to Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, who will propose a major overhaul.
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The action puts the representatives on a collision course with the Senate in the waning hours of the congressional session.
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By Nicole Warburton Deseret Morning News  A simple plan to ask voters to approve a tax hike to build new TRAX lines in Salt Lake County has become a lot more complicated because of a bill passed Tuesday by the Utah Legislature.
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By Gary Libow, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Mar. 9--Ralph Carpenter has won legislative confirmation as state  Department of Transportation commissioner, although the ride was a bit bumpy.
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Looks like the Way Forward will be a low-frills ride.
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The House bill will look a lot like one that cleared the Senate last week, but it will omit issue of fuel-economy standards.
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By Paola Iuspa-Abbott, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 21--Planners are voicing opposition to a key part of an agreement to eliminate two proposed roadways west of Boca Raton.
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One stage in the life of bills making their way through Congress has been shoved aside recently.
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When it comes to elected officials and earmarks, the policy seems to be the less said the better.
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Automakers, SUV owners, and the federal government may balk at the state's latest effort to curb air pollution.
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With one chief holdout down and one to go, a bill that would reform the intelligence system appears on course to be passed, perhaps today.
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The governor&#39;s plan to move up county tax collections next year could unravel what was supposed to be a smooth, noncombative wrap-up of a new state budget.
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RICHMOND, Aug. 22 -- Republican leaders in the Virginia General Assembly said they will introduce a plan Thursday to overhaul the controversial abusive-driving fees by applying them to out-of-state motorists and trying to limit the specific traffic offenses that would trigger them.
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By Duane Marsteller, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Sep. 6--MANATEE -- 3   DUANE MARSTELLER   Herald Staff Writer   County commissioners and developers began smoothing out their differences over roads Tuesday, but some bumps could still lie ahead.
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Congress can move with amazing speed when it wants to. Trouble is, Congress doesn&#39;t always want to -- as with the highway bill that&#39;s been delayed for two years and the 12 spending bills it is supposed to pass by Oct. 1, but won&#39;t.
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Governors of both parties are taking the lead on finding ways to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
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The Department of Transport is failing to meet most of its targets, according to a report by a committee of MPs.