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Decades ago, on a long car ride home from college, a friend of mine and I were talking about whether the liberal arts education we were getting had any practical use. He said he thought his might. He was majoring in medieval history, and in the event of a new Dark Age-- post-nuclear chaos or the aftermath of a huge natural catastrophe--he would know exactly what to do.
The feds are promising to help with special education costs. They've been making that promise for the past 30 years.
Terry Tamminen brings a Southern California mellowness to the un- mellow job of reorganizing state government.
Mark this in your diary: The great American free ride is fast coming to an end. In the years ahead, the solution to traffic congestion will be toll roads. From San Francisco to Houston, Washington, D.C. to Atlanta, transportation officials have decided that the next great wave of highway construction will come with an explicit price--and sometimes not a cheap one.
When we decide to build a new highway or train line, we think about unclogging traffic jams. That is shortsighted.