State driver's license stations all closed Monday, halting the
issuance of any driver's licenses or identification cards and
postponing the launch of a new, more secure system of issuing licenses
until at least Wednesday. The
new system, designed to foil identity thieves and meet security
challenges of the post-9/11 world, will cost the state $2.9 million in
lease and setup costs this fiscal year.
[we'll update you as the traffic fatalities mount]
This billion dollar legislation passed so that we could help our environment. Needless to say, our study determined the ones who truly win. A MUST READ for consumers wanting to take advantage of this program
Earlier this month, the House of Representatives voted 310-118
to keep the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) from
strip-searching passengers with millimeter-wave scanners at airport
checkpoints.
Screeners will grope us instead.
Millimeter-waves function like Superman’s X-ray vision, peering through
your clothing to the body beneath. You don’t undress; the scanner does
that for you. Meanwhile, screeners leering at the monitor and
ostensibly checking for weapons can check you out instead.
Prisons have used millimeter-wave and similar technologies for years.
No wonder the TSA, which frequently confuses passengers with prisoners,
has tried since its beginnings in 2002 to push us into these
pornographic scanners. But public outrage always stymied those efforts;
there’s something unutterably creepy about government agents inspecting
naked citizens. Michael Chertoff, then Secretary of the Department of
Homeland Security, finally growl
The Senate approved a $1 billion program yesterday to give vouchers to
consumers who trade in their gas-guzzling clunkers for more
fuel-efficient models -- a move that dealers hope will revive slumping
auto sales.
It is not every 31-year-old who, in a first government job, finds himself dismantling General Motors and rewriting the rules of American capitalism. Brian Deese, a not-quite graduate of Yale Law School who had never set foot in an automotive assembly plant until he took on his nearly unseen role in remaking the American automotive industry.
The Texas House is poised to vote to sell our PUBLIC highways to PRIVATE, foreign corporations in sweetheart deals that will charge the traveling public 75 cents a mile to use our PUBLIC roadways. That’s more than $3,000 a year PER COMMUTER on averag
The U.S. Coast Guard will require U.S.-flagged ships sailing around the Horn of Africa to post guards and ship owners to submit anti-piracy security plans for approval, a Coast Guard official said. [Blackwater to the rescue.]
General Motors Corp is open to considering moving its headquarters from Detroit, selling U.S. plants and renegotiating its restructuring plan with its major union as it heads toward probable bankruptcy, the automaker's chief executive said.
The Treasury Department is racing to engineer the sale of Chrysler's financing arm in a move the administration deems vital to saving the troubled automaker, but other federal agencies have not given their support, sources familiar with the matte
The state Transportation Department is getting ready to spend $1.5 million [federal stimulus] replacing metric signs along Interstate 19 with mileage signs. "We continually get complaints from motorists throughout the year."
A new report by Greg Mauz of the National Motorists Association focuses on the fraudulent camera scheme in Arizona. The result? Cameras are NOT saving lives in Arizona. They are responsible for over 28 extra fatalities!
Except this junker was a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. The real thing. The single-engine Mach 2.2 interceptor that ruled the skies in the 1950s and 1960s. “In a post-9/11 world we probably wouldn’t have been able to get one,” Mr. Shadle acknowledged. B
President Barack Obama outlined his plan for "long overdue" high-speed rail on Thursday that would rival air travel, create jobs and help curb the U.S. transportation system's appetite for oil.
The Obama administration is expected to unveil its plans on Thursday for accelerating development of high-speed rail, a concept that in the past has had mixed political support and little public funding.
If you’re part of the government/surveillance-complex in Arizona (the extensive collaboration of private companies corrupting law enforcement with the prospect of bucketfuls of money), it sure does seem like it’s hard to catch a break these days.
A city such as Los Angeles was built out on a grid system with traffic moving to the grid edges in order to move on out to another such grid. The operative idea was to avoid congestion within the grid boundaries. Not a bad plan for a small town, but
Americans can buy virtually anything over the Internet these days—sex, booze, houses—everything, that is, but a new car. If you want to buy a new car, you have to go down to your local dealership and haggle with the car salesmen
Traffic warning signs are changed to zombie warning signs. [in various stories, this is the work of "remote hackers", a "UT computer genius", or, just plain hackers that crack the well-known password: DOTS]
President Obama will direct federal regulators on Monday to move swiftly on an application by California and 13 other states to set strict automobile emission and fuel efficiency standards, two administration officials said.
The USA is seeking to establish a global traveling norm requiring government-issued ID for all forms of travel, a life-time record for individual travel histories & mandatory government permission for all travel, particularly air or international tra
Is it a car? Is it a plane? Actually it’s both. The first flying automobile, equally at home in the sky or on the road, is scheduled to take to the air next month. If it survives its first test flight, the Terrafugia Transition, which can transform i
It appears today that TxDOT has come to its knees — at least for the moment, and we can claim a important though partial victory in fighting the mammoth Trans-Texas Corridor. To be sure, this is TxDOT spin, but it is clear that they are responding to
AirTran Airways apologized Friday to nine Muslims kicked off a New Year's Day flight to Florida after other passengers reported hearing a suspicious remark about airplane security. One of the passengers said the confusion started at Reagan Nation
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