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.