As predicted here, the Monday morning hurricane-hype quarterbacking theme today is cover our butts. The hurricane was clearly fizzling ev...

Kennedy and Newark airports will resume flight arrivals at 6 a.m. Monday and departures at noon Monday, the Port Authority of New York and N...

The New York airports remain closed, and Port Authority officials said that they probably wouldn't be reopened till Monday night at the ...

[" Thar she blows, men !"] Toldja. It rained hard in the New York City area overnight, slicking the streets of the great lo...

[ Top map shows NJ barrier islands; bottom map via Flightview.com shows national airports status at 10 a.m. EDT today. Red dot means, fo...

And rest assured, there will be a storm -- even if the Hurricane That Ate New York happens to fizzle out tomorrow somewhere in the forlorn A...

Most airlines had avoided preemptively cancelling flights for this weekend as the hurricane headed for the Mid-Atlantic coast. Till lat...

As I said in an interview on Warren Olney's "To the Point" program on NPR this afternoon, the transportation story of the week...

State officials have decided to shut down mass transit in New York City and on Long Island starting tomorrow afternoon, when the first major...

[ Long Beach Island, a barrier island on the New Jersey coast ] South Jersey and the Jersey Shore appear to be directly in the path of t...

Whoa, now I am impressed. Usually, I ignore hurricane hype on the East Coast for the media hysteria it usually is. But hang on her...

Well, for one thing, they're working. I'm at the Tucson airport bound for Denver. Got here at 7 and was surprised to see a kid wo...

[ Saguaro at sunset, from my front yard] There was a recent piece by Rick Moody about Tucson in Newsweek, or the Daily Beast, or what...

It rained hard here on the east side of Tucson yesterday. It really brought out the critters. To the left is a stock photo of a gi...

As the affluent get affluenter (Wall Street/stock market shenanigans aside), luxury hotels continue leading the pack in hotel spending. A...

In today's low-brow media, everything is always new, everything is a surprise, because there is no history. There is just this stran...

Just when you think there is no possible way the British high-church establishment could look more ridiculous than it already has, here ...

Finally, now that they're a little bored watching the thieves on Wall Street running around with their pants on fire, the U.S. media see...

[ Chart: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation ] As the chart shows, tarmac delays -- that is, planes th...

Am shaking my head over the morning papers here in the U.S., where the coverage of the rioting in London, its suburbs and a few other citie...