At long last there is evidence to suggest that manufacturing in the United States has turned the corner. After a decade and a half of steady of corporations moving their manufacturing platforms overseas, U.S. manufacturing employment has enjoyed a modest rebound the past two years. Chinese labor costs are rising,...

(This article is reprinted from Surface Transportation Innovations, a monthly publication of the Reason Foundation). In recent years, it’s become conventional wisdom among many planners that suburbia has become less affordable than living in more-compact, transit-accessible urban cores. One of the main sources for this idea is periodic reports from...

Governor McDonnell declared 2012 “The Year of the Entrepreneur” in Virginia, asserting the state had the “right” regulatory climate for entrepreneurs. According to a new study on occupational licensure, however, Virginia still has some work to do. An “occupational license” is essentially a government permission slip for work. Having to...

What if you could improve Virginia’s economy by eliminating state income taxes on the working poor (and cutting taxes for everyone else) while creating thousands of new jobs? And what if, at the same time, you stimulated hundreds of millions in new business investments – even while eliminating three job-destroying...

New technology is taking cost, time and uncertainty out of highway design. For Virginians, this quiet revolution means less traffic disruption, lower costs and faster turn-around times on big projects. Last fall Fluor Transurban was negotiating a contract with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) to build or upgrade 29...

(This article is reprinted from Surface Transportation Innovations, a publication by the Reason Foundation that Bob Poole authors each month.) For the past two decades, the United States has missed out on one of the most significant advances in urban highway engineering: the deep-bore tunnel. Such tunnels are now in...