Congress pushes a fighter jet engine the military says it doesn't want or need. May 21, 2010 — -- President Obama says Congress has sunk billions into a military jet engine that the Defense ...

WASHINGTON – Six years ago the Social Security Administration embarked on an aggressive plan to replace outdated computer systems overwhelmed by a growing flood of disability claims. Nearly $300 ...

Senator Ashley Moody co-sponsored the Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act to highlight over-budget federal projects, promoting ...

President Joe Biden has rolled out his Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) plan, which will be subsidized by $42 billion from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. That is an ...

Prompted by an email from Miriam Gross of Brighton, I look up “boondoggle.” Webster confirms that the word was coined by Robert H. Link. I hadn’t known that until Miriam wrote. She had been alerted to ...

The $14.7 million for a new airport on an Alaskan island that averages only 42 flights a month. The half-million dollars for a new skateboard park in unemployment-ravaged Rhode Island. The $3.4 ...

It’s billions of dollars over budget and seven years behind schedule, and appears to have no plausible way of living up to its goal of getting riders across the state in three hours or less. Welcome ...

No tickets or vouchers are needed for Downtown Milwaukee’s free streetcar service, The Hop. Riders can jump on and off to connect to shopping, entertainment, dining and more. Monday morning, The Hop ...

Shocker alert: California’s effort to build a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco has been a monument to massive cost overruns and delays. And the situation continues to ...

An ambitious plan to build a 1,600-mile railroad linking the Alaska and Canadian rail systems is on hold, and appears to be in jeopardy. A year ago, former Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell and other ...