bill shuster

Rep. Elijah Cummings and two Tennessee lawmakers are asking for a congressional hearing on school bus safety after deadly crashes in Baltimore and Chattanooga last year.

Raise the federal gas tax or face the even more costly alternative of bad roads and worsening traffic congestion

As drivers travel aging roads and crumbling bridges, federal highway funding is failing to keep pace with inflation in nearly every state — and some such as Maryland are experiencing a sharper decline than others, according to an analysis of transportation spending.

Rejection of tea party candidates in latest GOP primary elections is instructive but is anyone in Maryland paying attention?

As the funding controversy swirled around Susan G. Komen for the Cure this week, much of the criticism was directed not at the group's president, but at Karen Handel, a Maryland native who serves as a senior policy adviser.