Showing posts with label transportation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transportation. Show all posts

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Higher gas tax for Portland? GOP lawmaker unveils transportation plan

A Republican state representative and former member of Gov. Kate Brown's transportation "Gang of Eight" unveiled a proposal Friday to raise more than $200 million a year in transportation revenue.
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Thursday, December 13, 2012

TSA's Grip on Internal Travel is Tightening

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is tightening its grip on domestic travel. I don't mean the random, unpredictable security checks at bus, subway and train stations which already exist. I mean a coordinated and systematic police control of internal travel within America. Groundwork is being laid.

The application was tucked away on page 71431 of Volume 77, Number 231 of the Federal Register (November 30). It was surrounded by soporific references to forwarding "the new Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)."

The application for funding from the TSA constitutes a preliminary step toward systematically expanding TSA's authority from airports to highways and almost every other means of public travel.

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