OPINION: US DOT goes overboard on "inclusiveness"

Look at what the government is doing now!"Beginning with the 2010 model year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will change the way it measures frontal crash tests by placing female dummies in passenger seats and taking injury data from new parts of the body,...

Six years since 9.11, the state of American Air Travel

For frequent business travelers and passengers post 9.11 security requirements are nothing more than a hassle. It seems most Americans have become immune to the flavor of the month restrictions imposed by the FAA, TSA and others with stakes in keeping us safe. Measures in...

Planet Earth - just a dot in space

"... Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions,...

Second Avenue Subway Could Become Reality

The first few times I heard of the partially built, never completed, second avenue subway I scoffed and dismissed it as myth - a great story that I too would one day pass off on new comers to the city. Over time though, I had heard so much about it that I began to believe -...

Citytimes: A family's imminent fight

When you live in the cross hairs of commuter progress, why not just settle on a price and move on? Because it's not always nearly that simple.PALMETTO BEACH - Justo Garcia built his house with his own hands. An Ybor City cigarmaker, he bought 12 concrete blocks a week and...