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On top of flight change fees, checked baggage fees, and fees for food and drink, Continental Airlines has added a new surcharge for passengers: the extra legroom fee.

Detroit's airport is the best large airport in the nation, according to a new survey from JD Power and Associates, and Indianapolis has the best small airport.

The federal agency in charge of $8 billion in economic stimulus spending on high-speed-rail projects doesn't have the staff or expertise to properly oversee the money, government investigators and congressional critics say.

As labor and management leaders begin setting up "partnership" councils through which they'll work together to solve workplace problems, one nagging question remains: How to measure if their partnerships are working.

The Veterans Affairs Department plans to announce today that it will fully automate how it pays claims for illnesses related to exposure to the chemical Agent Orange to keep an overburdened system from collapse.

WASHINGTON , The Veterans Affairs Department plans to announce Tuesday that it will fully automate how it pays claims for illnesses related to exposure to the chemical Agent Orange to keep an overburdened system from collapse.

When the roof of the Robert J. Dole U.S. Courthouse in Kansas City, Kan., began leaking last summer, it couldn't have come at a better time.

US Postmaster General John Potter last week recommended that the Postal Service eliminate Saturday delivery in order to help stanch the multi-billion dollar bleeding that the USPS has been experiencing for nearly half a decade.

The reason? In addition to frustrating the very customers that the USPS is supposed to be serving, the USPS’ junk mail-centric business model isn’t very profitable. At all. They lost nearly $300 million in the last three months of 2009 alone, following several years of billion dollar losses.

By all accounts this news is a strong signal that the USPS is finally coming to terms with the way Americans communicate in the 21st Century. We’re hoping that part of that awakening includes an understanding that in the 21st Century, Americans expect to have a choice in what they are or are not receiving.

Apparently one of the reforms currently being bandied about is the creation of “a world-class website” for the USPS. Our hope is that they’ll seize this opportunity to use that website to run a free, comprehensive, and enforceable Do Not Mail Registry for all Americans to use. The USPS could generate revenue both by selling lists of people who want to receive direct mail to businesses, and also by fining business that violate the registry.

The USPS needs money, and American citizens demand choice. Win-win. Oh, and disrespectful junk mailers lose. So win-win-lose.

Alitza Vega, a human resources specialist at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, has made the most of her education benefits.

For many professionals, education never ends.