At a time when even some of its riders are turning away from light rail, the price of extending the Blue Line keeps ballooning. The cost of bringing the line from downtown Minneapolis to Brooklyn Park ...

The U.S. Navy says it plans to buy 15 hulking “battleships” over the next 30 years. The number of such behemoths it actually needs comes closer to zero. The sooner Congress recognizes that fact, the ...

The US Navy says it plans to buy 15 hulking “battleships” over the next 30 years. The number of such behemoths it actually needs comes closer to zero. The sooner Congress recognizes that fact, the ...

Donald Trump has dropped his $10 billion damages lawsuit against the IRS. What he’s doing instead may be even worse. Back in October, we editorialized against the unseemly spectacle of Trump’s ...

The current daily cost, more than $700 per person, only sounds like the rate for some luxury hotel. Put it this way: In just six months, more than $92 million in taxpayer dollars went to a porta-potty ...

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Virtually everyone who has looked at “Alligator Alcatraz” with a critical eye has reached the same conclusion: It was a bad idea that was executed even worse. For starters, the state made a hasty ...

Spencer Pratt is torching Nithya Raman and Karen Bass over a $10 million homeless housing “boondoggle,” using a single project to show City Hall is blowing through billions of dollars with weak ...

The Golden State has more than one transit "boondoggle" to wrestle with. Another blighted project seeking to connect the Bay Area with the San Joaquin Valley — the Valley Link Rail Project — has seen ...

According to a recent announcement by Canada Post, it lost $1.57 billion in 2025 — the “largest loss before tax” in the Crown corporation’s history. Clearly, privatization is the only viable path ...

The “boondoggle” could be no more. Gov. Mikie Sherrill proposed terminating New Jersey’s controversial $48 million-a-year mental health initiative known as NJ4S — slammed as a “boondoggle” by one ...