A U.S. Senate candidate in Maryland was run over and killed by an SUV while riding her bicycle. The SUV driver didn’t even stop to see what had happened.

One good sign of a party’s power is its effectiveness in carrying out bread-and-butter campaign tasks, tasks like getting the thousands of signatures to put party candidates on the ballot. Independent Political Report notes that the the Independent Green Party of Virginia has managed the feat of putting a candidate for the House of Representatives [...]

Why isn’t our government engaging with the much more deadly threat of cars on the road with the same zeal and expense with which it’

The hundreds of green jobs coming as a result of a high speed train project in the Connecticut River Valley contradicts claims that there hasn’t been any green job creation.

The federal government has no business spending money to benefit the investors of Legacy Engine with a study that has a predetermined outcome.

Last week, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher stepped into the transportation crisis of Southern California with a funding proposal. For a rail system? No. Rohrabacher’s answer to the transportation crisis in Southern California is more of the same.

The public housing program funded in H.R. 3288 also ought to please conservatives, given that the form of housing it supports is a change from old public housing programs, which created high crime areas by concentrating a combination of desperate and vulnerable people through tracts of purely low-income housing. The new program demolishes the old projects and replaces them with mixed-income housing.

Marcy Kaptur is still serving as a mouthpiece of auto industry lobbyists, who not coincidentally continue to work at funneling auto industry money into her campaign coffers.

It seems that Republican John Boehner got on the airwaves and mocked bicycle lanes as something frivolous, not understanding that people who use those bicycle lanes to get around are doing a big favor for their communities, helping to reduce traffic, keep the air clean and reduce the cost of gasoline.

The Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008, as its name implies, would begin a transition from reliance on out-of-date fossil fuels for transportation toward more efficient transportation by train. It’s exactly what we need to deal with America’s current economic and environmental problems. For some bizarre reason, almost all of the Republicans in the House of Representatives oppose it.