By Francis McCabe There was big news this week out of Washington, D.C., and I bet it has the politicians running scared. A nonpartisan commission spent the last two years examining our nation's transportation system, and its prognosis was negative.

By Hope Yen WASHINGTON -- Federal gasoline taxes should be increased up to 40 cents per gallon over five years, a divided special commission urged Tuesday in calling for drastic changes to fix aging bridges and roads and reduce traffic deaths.

By Gordon Dickson, and Anna M. Tinsley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Jan.