Thirty years ago, we wanted to control 'new source' air pollution in the worst way. That's about what we did.

Life is tough in city halls across the country, with tax revenues declining and expenses rising. And, as it turns out, death isn't much better. In Danville, Virginia, the city council recently was struggling with how to hold down costs at the city's cemeteries when one council member made an interesting suggestion: Why not bury people five feet deep rather than six feet?

A few weeks ago, the Vermont Senate discussed a proposal to require that all state judges step down from office upon reaching the age of 110. This may sound like the mootest of moot points, given that no jurist in Vermont--or anywhere in the world, I imagine--has ever lived that long. But it had a purpose.

Iowa Unloads Its Less-Traveled Roads.

Federal transportation authorities in May approved the use of a transparent sound barrier along part of the rebuilt Woodrow Wilson Bridge, a major section of the Interstate 95 system south of Washington, D.C.