by Edward Hasbrouck | Apr 22, 2011
If you don’t want it to get even harder for a U.S. citizen to get a passport — now required for travel even to Canada or Mexico — you only have until Monday to let the State Department know. The U.S. Department of State is proposing a new...
by Edward Hasbrouck | Feb 3, 2010
The Obama Administration announced their fiscal year 2010 budget proposal today. Under the administration’s proposal for DHS appropriations, the TSA’s annual budget would increase by more than a billion dollars from 2009 to 2011, with most of that going toward the...
by Edward Hasbrouck | Jan 14, 2010
Originally published by Edward Hasbrouck on PapersPlease.org. Already this week the TSA was caught in a lie about what it likes to call whole body imaging (virtual strip search) machines, when the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) obtained documents showing...
by Edward Hasbrouck | Jan 6, 2010
Mesa Air, a “regional” airline operating interisland flights in Hawaii as Go Mokulele and operating codeshare flights elsewhere in the names of United Express, US Airways Express, and Delta Connection, filed for bankruptcy protection today. I’ve...
by Edward Hasbrouck | Dec 18, 2009
Given space for a rebuttal on the same page with today’s USA Today editorial, When airlines share codes, truth-in-labeling suffers, president Roger Cohen of the Regional Airline Association (RAA) trots out the airlines’ usual “big lie” on code...