Let's look on the bright side of life.

By all accounts, you would be hard-pressed today to find anyone who views congressional inaction positively. But with the House of Representatives' transportation package languishing amid opposition from both Democrats and Republicans, members of Congress at least have added time...

Last week, my colleague Chris Leinberger wrote a provocative op-ed in the New York Times titled "The Death of the Fringe Suburb." Leinberger, who is president of LOCUS: Responsible Real Estate Developers and Investors, which is a project of Smart Growth America, highlighted the convergence of...

When the housing bubble popped in 2009, it left many American communities with foreclosed and vacant homes and businesses.

The American Jobs Act would help restore thousands of these abandoned properties and put construction workers back to work in the process with Project Rebuild. The $15 billion...

For decades, states have invested disproportionately in road expansion and left regular repair and preservation underfunded. As a result of these spending decisions, road conditions in many states are getting worse and threaten taxpayers with billions of dollars in preventable expenses.

Between 2004 and 2008, states collectively spent $37.9 billion...

To avoid small costs, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be creating big costs for everyone, including the federal government.

The EPA announced on Monday that it plans to move the Agency's Region 7 headquarters, currently located in downtown Kansas City, Kansas, to Lenexa, a site nearly...

In late January President Obama gave his State of the Union address and in it, our marching orders: pick projects based on what's best for the economy, not politicians.

When it comes to the economy, we know that the road to recovery is still long. Forty-six state...

In his State of the Union address, President Obama laid out a strategy to rebuild America's economy, calling on the country to "Out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world." He laid out strategies for better education, better energy production, better transportation and better job creation. All of these...

In its report yesterday, the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform encouraged Congress to cut from the federal budget "wasteful spending, including subsidies that are poorly targeted or create perverse incentives..." People who care about making great neighborhoods, take notice. Unbeknownst to most, the federal government plays...