“Boondoggle” is a term used to describe an unnecessary project generally considered wasteful and often undertaken or continued due to political motivations. That’s the very definition of Trump’s ...

It’s billions of dollars over budget and seven years behind schedule, and appears to have no plausible way of living up to its goal of getting riders across the state in three hours or less. Welcome ...

WASHINGTON − The Air Force needs to clean up its act on buying spare parts for its workhorse C-17, the Pentagon inspector general announced Tuesday, blasting the service for spending 80 times the ...

Shocker alert: California’s effort to build a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco has been a monument to massive cost overruns and delays. And the situation continues to ...

Prompted by an email from Miriam Gross of Brighton, I look up “boondoggle.” Webster confirms that the word was coined by Robert H. Link. I hadn’t known that until Miriam wrote. She had been alerted to ...