The oversight branch of the U.S. Department of Transportation has opened an inquiry into whether the Missouri Department of Transportation is doing enough to involve minority-owned businesses in projects that use federal stimulus dollars.

The Missouri chapter of the NAACP contacted…

Metro has posted on its website which routes will return/be created/get more buses later this summer when the transit agency begins spending $12 million in stimulus funds. Missouri legislators approved the funding last month. The bill awaits Gov. Jay Nixon’s signature.

On Friday, Metro officials…

As if things could get much worse for the region’s public transportation system. Now the agency expects the recession to take a sizable bite out of Metro’s advertising income next year.

Granted, the amount of money generated by selling ad space on the…

Amtrak will be getting a piece of the stimulus pie. The amount hasn’t been finalized, but the expectation is that the passenger rail service could get $1.3 billion. Could high-speed rail from St. Louis to Chicago be around the corner? To read…