Yesterday I looked at how the Obama administration might boost federal support for mass transit. Well, as ProPublica's Ben Protess reports, one quick way would be to replenish the 30 transit agencies across the country that had bank deals backed by AIG. The bailed out insurance ...

Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post comments on an issue that is raising hackles and concerns around the Washington, D.C. region -- the Department of Transportation's decision not to fund a rail expansion of the Washington Metro to Dulles International Airport in Northern Virginia.   The project, in planning for nearly a decade, has been the subject of much debate, but the DOТ's decision to drop funding completely (when $900 million had originally been pledged) has been somewhat of a shock even to critics of the plan.  And ideology -- rather than a pragmatic look at the real costs and benefits of the project -- seems to be at the heart of the decision.