“Boondoggle” is both noun and verb. A boondoggle is a task of little practical value; to boondoggle is to waste time and money on unnecessary work.

Tax handouts to particular businesses is a popular economic development strategy among politicians. The optics are great—ribbon cuttings, ground breakings—and the tax breaks allow government officials ...

The Golden State has more than one transit “boondoggle” to wrestle with. Another blighted project seeking to connect the Bay Area with the San Joaquin Valley — the Valley Link Rail Project — has seen ...

Regarding Ranjay Gulati’s op-ed “Don’t Let the Infrastructure Bill Become a Boondoggle,” (Nov. 9): As a management consultant out in the real world, I understand the fallacy of solving problems in the ...

Last November, the Biden Federal Railroad Administration said that the nine components of Amtrak’s Gateway boondoggle would cost $40 billion, which didn’t include another $7 billion for fixing Penn ...

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For decades, the Los Angeles Fire Department has tried and failed to recruit women as firefighters, coming under intense political pressure from elected officials and women’s groups who said women ...