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Randal O'Toole

Opinion and Commentary


"Smart-Growth Plans Are a Failure in Portland," Houston Chronicle, November 14, 2009

"Are Proposals For High-speed Rail a Boondoggle?," Detroit Free Press (Online), August 3, 2009

"Why PA Shouldn't Build High-Speed Rail," The Bulletin, July 24, 2009

"High Speed Spending," Gainesville Sun, June 18, 2009

"A High-Speed Rail Mirage," USA Today, May 20, 2009

"High-Speed Rail Is No Solution," Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 4, 2009

"Trains Are for Tourists," National Public Radio, March 19, 2009

"Save Washington's Metro by Privatizing the System," DC Examiner, February 26, 2009

"Rules for Infrastructure Stimulus," Washington Times, February 16, 2009

"Light Rail Isn't the Track to the Future," San Antonio Express-News, February 9, 2009

"NY Waterway: A Private Transit Success Story," Hawaii Reporter, January 20, 2009

"Big Burdens from Growth Management," USA Today, September 30, 2008

"Light-Rail Systems Are a False Promise," Cato.org, September 16, 2008

"Cancel FasTracks," Rocky Mountain News, September 8, 2008

"Real Global Warming Fix," Denver Daily News, July 1, 2008

"Rail Transit Just Isn't Trying to Improve Fuel Efficiency," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 15, 2008

"Focus on Fuel-Friendly Cars, Not Rail," Seattle Times, May 1, 2008

"Costs Will Outweigh Benefits," Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, February 8, 2008

"Don't Hobble Houston with Land Planning," Houston Chronicle, January 19, 2008

"When Government Plans, It Usually Fails," The Baltimore Sun, December 27, 2007

"Paying the Planning Tax," American Spectator (Online), December 6, 2007

"Why California Home Prices are So High," North County Times, November 3, 2007

"San Jose's Public Planning Debacle," American Spectator, November 1, 2007

"U.S. Forest Service Has Money to Burn," OCRegister.com, October 29, 2007

"Government Plans Don't Work," Christian Science Monitor, October 18, 2007

"Dispelling Transit Myths," Charlotte Observer, October 12, 2007

"BART Connection to San Jose Will Solve Nothing," San Jose Business Journal, October 5, 2007

"Portland Rail Fiasco: Hawaii Should Hear the Whole Story Before Committing to Multi-Billion Rail Project," Hawaii Reporter, September 6, 2007

"Light Rail Doesn't Work," Ottawa Citizen, August 22, 2007

"Debunking Portland: The Public Transit Myth," TCSdaily.com, August 15, 2007

"Infrastructure Gridlock," American Spectator, August 10, 2007

"Big Government, Big Fire," American Spectator, July 9, 2007

"Wrong Way to Make a Region Livable," Vancouver Sun, June 12, 2007

"Wildfires Not All That's Out of Control at Forest Service," Examiner.com, May 2, 2007

"Should the Forest Service Have Money to Burn?," Fox News (Online), December 18, 2002

"Bush's Fire Plan Won't Work," Cato.org, September 7, 2002

"EPA Funds Anti-Sprawl Politics with Tax Dollars," Houston Chronicle, February 23, 2000

"Will Congress Make It Harder for You to Travel?," Cato.org, September 30, 1997

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