• Matt Dellinger

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    Matt Dellinger is the author of Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway. He has written for The New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Oxford American, Smithsonian, the Wall Street Journal magazine, and the New York Times, and has reported on transportation and planning for the public radio show The Takeaway. He worked for ten years on staff at The New Yorker as an illustrations editor, multimedia editor, and the producer and host of The New Yorker Out Loud, the magazine's first weekly podcast. He also coached The New Yorker’s softball team for eight seasons. Dellinger was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and graduated from DePauw University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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    Reversing a Radical Rewrite: Can Boehner Go Bipartisan?

    It’s hard to see clearly through the wreckage of the House transportation bill, but Speaker...

    GOP House Works to Undo Reagan Legacy on Transportation

    There was another moment like ours, not so long ago. The economy was in recession,...

    Rick Santorum, as Senator, Preached the Gospel of Transit

    In March of 2005, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) and its Pennsylvania counterpart (PPTA)...

    Newt Gingrich: Rail Visionary, Lover of Oil

    It’s hard to know for sure how former House Speaker New Gingrich might handle transportation...

    Mitt Romney: Metro-Friendly Moderate?

    Pop quiz: What national political figure, as one of his first acts as chief executive,...

    Choose Your Own Rail Adventure

    “I remember the first time I saw a train go by,” a choked-up grown man...

    ANALYSIS: High Speed Rail Naysayer Scott Says Nay to California Costs

    Florida Governor Rick Scott wasted no time making hay of the formal increase in cost...

    Rick Perry’s Trans-Texas Corridor Problem

    For Texas Governor Rick Perry, Republican Primary debates have been a little rocky. So far...

    Mica’s Love-Hate Relationship with Infrastructure Finance

      It was only minutes after President Barack Obama delivered his jobs speech to a...

    Is the Indiana Toll Road Operator in Danger of Default?

    (Matt Dellinger – Transportation Nation) For the last month, while national news coverage has focused on...