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City Budgets Bend Under Growing Pension Costs and Dwindling Revenues
Mounting pension debt costs diverts millions of tax dollars from public services each year.
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How to Make Highways and Airports Pay
State and local governments are sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars in aging but revenue-generating infrastructure assets.
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Critique of Maryland Congestion-Relief Plan Rests on Very Bad Logic
It’s time Maryland got serious about tapping the private sector for better highways.
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Voters Should be Leery of Approving More State Borrowing
The first rule for getting out of a hole is to stop digging.
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Worries About Deficits Go Out the Window
Politicians have stopped talking about the federal government's fiscal predicament even though it is getting worse under the Trump administration and Republican Congress.
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Are New Jersey Pensioners Funding a Pro-Trump Tabloid in Chase for Returns?
Investing with the private equity fund that owns the National Enquirer may not be the most prudent choice for Garden State public employees, retirees and taxpayers.
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Proposition 6 Would Knock Down California’s High Gas Tax
Should California’s families spend as much on gas taxes and vehicle fees as they spend on Christmas?
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Technology Is Revolutionizing Transportation and Microtransit
Microtransit is a relatively recent phenomenon that allows customers to reserve trips online or through a mobile interface and uses software algorithms to map out dynamic service routes.
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Public-Private Partnership Program Is Helping Serve Homeless Veterans and Their Families
Homelessness in America is on the rise for the first time since 2010 due, in part, to a homelessness surge in Los Angeles, Seattle, San Diego and other West Coast cities.