Amtrak fires the TSA
It is a bit complicated to fire someone that does not really work for you. Just ask Cosmo Kramer about getting fired from a job:...
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The TSA wants to charge you for your carry-on bags
Sure, there was tremendous uproar when Spirit Air announced their plan to charge passengers to have larger carry-on bags on the plane. But what if...
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An end to “Threat Advisory Level Orange”
The Department of Homeland Security is finally going to get rid of their Rainbow Brite security system according to published reports. The system, established to...
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Why I will continue to travel, despite the TSA
Part of me says that I should have seen this all coming. The TSA has been pretty good about demonstrating just how incompetent they are...
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Please do not leave baggage unattended
Dear woman at JFK T7 this morning: Thank you for coming back at the very last minute and claiming the random black carry-on bag that...
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Ridiculously confusing airline pricing
Why, oh why, do the airlines make it so hard to figure out the pricing for a ticket? Yes, there are rules about what does...
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Bad policies, bad decisions and a terrible blunder at the TSA
In a report that should come as no surprise to anyone following the story, the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General has blasted the Transportation...
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Passport fees going up in the United States
The State Department has published a proposed rule in the Federal Register announcing their intentions to change the rates charged for a number of consular...
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New TSA policy a violation of, um, TSA policy
Gotta love an Agency that can managed to violate their own rules when creating rules. I suppose if they never bothered to publically state either...
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Another TSA document redaction failure
I really wish that these stories would stop cropping up. Don’t get me wrong – they give me something to write about – but they...