Policy and environment

Nashville’s Second Attempt to Kill Racing at Fairgrounds Speedway Comes With a $116 Million Catch A Pro Late Model race car navigates a turn during weekly short-track racing action at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway.

Nashville’s Second Attempt to Kill Racing at Fairgrounds Speedway Comes With a $116 Million Catch

John Lloyd September 23, 2026 0
Nashville’s Fairgrounds Speedway has now survived one lawsuit and absorbed a second signature drive aimed at shutting...
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Someone Drove a Car Down the I-90 Floating Bridge’s Bike Path, and Washington’s Penalty for It Is a Mess Aerial shot of a floating bridge linking Seattle across Lake Washington.

Someone Drove a Car Down the I-90 Floating Bridge’s Bike Path, and Washington’s Penalty for It Is a Mess

EL Puckett September 17, 2026 0
Video of a car on the I-90 Trail has been circulating since September 10. The statutes that...
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An Unmarked Tow Truck, a Scanner, and an 11-Year-Dead Registration: Inside LA’s Bandit Towing Crackdown A tow truck towing a car on the road

An Unmarked Tow Truck, a Scanner, and an 11-Year-Dead Registration: Inside LA’s Bandit Towing Crackdown

John Lloyd September 10, 2026 0
West Hollywood sheriff’s deputies flagged a tow truck near La Brea Avenue and Fountain Avenue last week...
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GM’s New Cabin Camera Software Won’t Spy for the Company — It Might Just Get You Sued Instead Gener curtain wall building during daytime

GM’s New Cabin Camera Software Won’t Spy for the Company — It Might Just Get You Sued Instead

John Lloyd September 8, 2026 0
A rear-facing camera tucked into the overhead console. Four more cameras scattered around the sheet metal. And...
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California’s ‘Leno’s Law’ Would Let More 1980s Classics Skip Smog Checks — If Sacramento Ever Lets It Out of Committee black and grey vehicle during daytime

California’s ‘Leno’s Law’ Would Let More 1980s Classics Skip Smog Checks — If Sacramento Ever Lets It Out of Committee

John Lloyd September 7, 2026 0
Every legislative session, Sacramento produces one bill gearheads actually want to read past the headline. This time...
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153 Million Driver’s Licenses Leaked in a Breach Tied to the Company That Scans IDs at Hertz Counters Hand holding car key fob outside a rental vehicle

153 Million Driver’s Licenses Leaked in a Breach Tied to the Company That Scans IDs at Hertz Counters

John Lloyd September 4, 2026 0
Handing your license across a rental counter is such a routine part of picking up a car...
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Durango Police Are Dropping Flock’s License Plate Cameras for Axon – And Tightening the Leash on Your Data A solar panel powers a security camera

Durango Police Are Dropping Flock’s License Plate Cameras for Axon – And Tightening the Leash on Your Data

EL Puckett September 4, 2026 0
Durango’s police department is done cutting checks to Flock Safety. Chief Brice Current told the city council...
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A CDL School Told Inspectors Its Classroom Was Inside a School Bus. That’s How Bad Trucking Fraud Has Gotten. Blue semi-truck approaching on a highway from a car's perspective

A CDL School Told Inspectors Its Classroom Was Inside a School Bus. That’s How Bad Trucking Fraud Has Gotten.

John Lloyd August 31, 2026 0
Federal investigators sent 175 people into 40 states this summer to check on truck driving schools, and...
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