Airport to Nowhere: Spain’s Costly No-Fly Zone
While having some of the wobbliest finances in Europe, here’s how a Spanish county built an airport nobody—except one lucky politician—wanted.
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Solar Showdown: Are New Solar Power Projects Anti-Environmental?
Big money, big energy and big environmentalism join forces to support big solar energy projects on federal land in the Southwest. But could these "green" projects actually be anti-environmental boondoggles in the making?
Your Pork Is Actually My Policy
John McCain and Tom Coburn's snarky listing of reputedly dumb stimulus projects manages to 'misunderestimate' some important research.
Megaprojects Guru to Head New Oxford Center
Bent Flyvbjerg, subject of this September 2008 Miller-McCune cover story, has just been appointed chair of a new…
Port Barrel Spending
A reader wonders whether Port of Anchorage project has earmarks of a boondoggle.
Bill of Goods: The World’s Biggest Boondoggles
As seen in our main story on a cure for billion-dollar cost overruns, here's a look at some infamous public works projects and what went wrong.
Derailing the Boondoggle
A Danish professor promotes a cure for billion-dollar cost overruns in government megaprojects: Use past boondoggles as a baseline.