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By Jessica Wehrman, CQ-Roll Call WASHINGTON — In the months after her sister and brother-in-law and their three children died in a January 2019 crash caused by a drunken driver, Rana Abbas Taylor, consumed by grief, traveled to Washington, D.C., to talk to lawmakers about her loss. In the midst of t

WASHINGTON — In the months after her sister and brother-in-law and their three children died in a January 2019 crash caused by a drunken driver, Rana Abbas Taylor, consumed by grief, traveled to Washington, D.C., to talk to lawmakers about her loss.

by Jeremy Lott Print this article On July 9, President Joe Biden signed the "Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy." In a fact sheet accompanying that order, the White House claimed that it "established a whole-of-government effort to promote competition in the American economy, includ[ing] 72 initiatives by more than a dozen federal agencies to promptly tackle some of the most pressing competition problems across our economy." These efforts would do se...

Here’s how U.S. infrastructure compares to the rest of the world Ian Duncan © Matt Rourke/AP A Port Authority Transit Corporation train travels across the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in view of City Hall in Philadelphia last week. (AP/Matt Rourke) The White House has framed investments in infrastructure as a matter of ensuring the nation’s global competitiveness, highlighting in its $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan how the nation’s economy is the world’s largest — an...

by Jeremy Lott Print this article Theres a logic to starting with trucks, given the technology involved and that truckers already deal with interstate and international fuel tax issues, but politically, it would be a disaster to single them out first. Do a slim majority of people now support a vehicle miles traveled tax? That is one takeaway from the Mineta Transportation Institutes 12th annual survey of taxation and transportation. The California-based think ...

Elon Musks move to Texas brings jobs and opportunities by Jeremy Lott Print this article After months of fighting with California regulators in person and on social media, South African-Canadian billionaire Elon Musk confirmed late last year that he had taken his ball and gone home — to Texas. His companies include Tesla, SpaceX, and the Boring Company. Their presence in the Lone Star State is rapidly scaling up, setting up ample opportunities and a few Texas-sized pr...

Royal Caribbean increases bookings as people anticipate dissipation of COVID by Jeremy Lott Print this article Royal Caribbean Cruises stock began at least a 12-day rally, from Feb. 12 to Feb. 24, climbing from $67.63 a share to $96.66. The stock rose on the increased strength of bookings by passengers of the cruise lines cabins and losing slightly less money than analysts had predicted. "COVID fatigue is real. People are clamoring for the opportunity to have experience...

Pete Buttigieg walks back comments about gas tax increase by Jeremy Lott Print this article Pete Buttigieg, President Bidens likely incoming transportation secretary, admitted in his Jan. 21 Senate confirmation hearings that raising the federal excise tax on gasoline was one option under consideration to pay for the administrations proposed infrastructure projects. Buttigiegs aides quickly walked that statement back, saying that although a "variety of options" were bein...

by Jeremy Lott Print this article John Lemus loved his seven-speed Columbia Trailhead mountain bike. "That thing could take a beating and keep going. It also very literally saved my life a few times," the editor of Indie Comics Showcase told the Washington Examiner. He went to retrieve the bicycle from his backyard in Hialeah, Florida, in early December. Someone stole it, and he found himself a victim of a rash of local bike thefts. "It really pissed me off and also m...

Sources see ways to get more investment in infrastructure with municipal bond provisions, but bipartisanship will be essential.