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Since time immemorial, one sure-fire way to get rich has been to find out ahead of time where a new road or bridge was going to be built, and then buy up all the right of way around it. When…

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon did something a little weird last Thursday: He vetoed $33,000 from the Department of Transportation’s budget to punish MoDOT for commissioning a poll on Missourians’ attitudes about the Legislature’s decision to lift the state law requiring…

MoDOT Director Pete Rahn (Eddie Roth/Post-Dispatch)

Congress has assured the American people that it will police the massive appropriation of stimulus money — almost $40 billion — set aside for transportation projects in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.,…

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, left, and MoDOT Director Peter Rahn (Laurie Skrivan | Post-Dispatch)

Missouri’s Highways and Transportation Commission will hold a special meeting on Thursday afternoon to divvy up more than $400 million in federal stimulus money allocated to Missouri…

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Missourians have a right to know where Gov. Jay Nixon stands on the allocation of federal stimulus money coming to Missouri for transportation projects.

The federal money comes with some strings attached, and it’s Mr. Nixon’s job to ensure that…

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The size of the economic stimulus package that may be proposed by the incoming Obama administration grows larger by the minute. At last measurement, it was approaching $1 trillion.

That has generated a list-making frenzy by local governments, state agencies…

Missouri is a low-tax state.  The Census Bureau ranked it 46th among the states in  state taxes per person for the year 2005.

That’s not a good thing if you’re poor and need health care, or a student hoping for a good…

With the safety of motorists on the line, not to mention $535 million in taxpayers’ money, you’d think the Missouri Department of Transportation would be checking every weld, bolt and cubic foot of concrete in the U.S. Highway 40/Interstate 64 reconstruction…

“While the public has filet mignon expectations, MoDOT has Filet-O-Fish funding,” Missouri Department of Transportation Director Pete Rahn told the Missouri Legislature last winter. Come 2010 or so, MoDOT’s budget will be reduced to macaroni and cheese.
Sooner or later, we…