TODAY’S NEWS & VIEWS HEADLINES (Click HERE   to Go ”Right” to the Main Page)     October 14, 2009 Transportation Study Likely to Resurrect Calls for Higher Taxes   The state has used a combination of federal and state funding to improve its surface transportation network over the past decade, but many needed road projects remain unfunded, according to the report released by TRIP, a Washington , D.C.

(Cross-posted from The Paragraph .) “[I]t’s quite extraordinary to grant government agents the statutory authority to secretly break into Americans homes,” said Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) last month at a Judiciary Committee hearing on the PATRIOT Act. 80 A month after 9-11, with half its members shut out of their offices due to anthrax-powdered letters, the Senate passed the PATRIOT Act by a vote of 98-1 — the lone “nay” vote cast by Feingold.