Planning a road trip for Thanksgiving this week? You might want to pay attention to the condition of the highways and bridges. Many are in a sad state of repair, their maintenance wanting for lack of funds. It’s gotten so bad, the state can’t afford to pay for even basic infrastructure fixes. Today, three important players write about our dwindling stream of transportation revenue and how other, competing regions around the country have begun to leave us in the dust.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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