It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s your tax dollars at work!

Free roads aren’t free because highway users foot the bill. The same could be said for “free” coloring books the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority is giving away.Don’t forget to pick one up for the kids next time through. It comes with crayons.In it, you’ll find Captain Tollway, the authority’s own superhero mascot promoting the authority’s new “Know Before You Go!” campaign. His job is to

Memorial Day is about remembering

As many of you were, I was fortunate to be at home for Memorial Day, but only after some finely tuned dispatching, hustling and customer skills. It paid off.Some goodtime BBQ’ing was in the works, a short ride to St. George Island for a dip in the Gulf waters, a stop at the Blue Parrot for conch fritters. And later, some cold adult beverages of choice (at home), allowed me to catch up on some

The Run for the Wall

They say they are doing it for those who can’t.Long columns of motorcycle riders are currently rolling toward Washington, DC, and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. They roared past OOIDA headquarters shortly before noon on Monday.The annual ride is to honor and remember our POWs and MIAs. When the 3,000-mile ride concludes in Washington, DC, more than 300,000 bikers are expected to have

99 bottles of beer in the car …

Faced with an uncomfortable choice this year, the Tennessee General Assembly once again demonstrated its inimitable ability to crawfish.A bill that would ban open containers of alcoholic beverages in vehicles has once again been introduced, and once again died. I guess the legislators were afraid to tamper with the God-given right of bored passengers to suck on roadies. (These are the same folks

Dangerous new sport: Bridge post holing

Land Line reported Monday that a 2-foot-by-3-foot hole opened up on an Interstate-30 bridge in downtown Dallas.Nothing too unusual there. Many of our nation’s roads are afflicted with sinkholes, potholes and cracks.For instance, in Kansas City, MO, the current mayor even campaigned on a platform of street repair. He issued a press release in January 2007 titled “Funkhouser Announces Plan to Rid

Greensburg still ‘Ridin’ the storm out’

To be sure, Greensburg has taken tremendous strides since a nearly 2-mile-wide tornado dismantled 95 percent of the small town’s buildings one year ago, May 3.More than 100 housing permits have been issues, and many environmentally friendly and energy efficient structures are going up every day, as highlighted this week by dozens of publications, documentary makers and the CBS morning show.But