
Three top DOT officials saw flood damage at the center of a civil rights probe. An unlikely visitor made his way through rural Alabama last Wednesday to visit the community of Shiloh, a place usually far from the public eye. U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and two of his top officials came to Shiloh at the request of local landowners who say they've experienced frequent flooding ever since the state widened a highway alongside their homes. Many of the Black families that make up the Shiloh community have owned their...