With federal highway funding about to expire and highway projects around the country on the verge of shutting down - we have just the kind of crisis that's required for everyone involved to finally take action.
My youngest daughter was always a social kid, so when she grew up, she of course adopted all the social media. She Facebooks, she texts, so that even though she's out of the house and married, it's almost like she never left.
But her favorite social media is the phone. The bluetooth is always in her ear.
Overnight Andrew Rector has become the most famous baseball fan in New York. He's the man who was caught on ESPN snoozing during the fourth inning of the April 13th Yankees - Red Sox game at Yankee stadium.
As gas prices go up, and as Congress continues to dither over the cost of maintaining he nation's highways, Thomas Fisher, dean of the University of Minnesota's design college, says we are simply seeing the natural consequences of America's car culture.
Every year the public reading of Declaration of Independence is re-enacted outside Independence Hall: "That among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
You'll find them in the "settings" option on your smart phone: hidden keyboards that take you far beyond the alphabet you grew up with, far beyond the foreign alphabets you never learned, far beyond even wingdings, all the way into the land of emojis.
Workplaces are increasingly multicultural, meaning there are diverse ideas about how to get things done, communicate, handle conflicts, work in teams and be respectful. But an expert on intercultural communication says one of the most obvious places to see cultural differences in how we interact might be in our own home.
There are now six ongoing investigations - costing $14 million so far -into whether the IRS deliberately withheld tax exemptions from certain conservative groups.
The latest poll shows President Obama has tanked on foreign policy, with about 57 percent of Americans disapproving. So whose foreign policy advice can we trust?