Flight Risk

AP jabs National Park Service Director Fran Mainella for seeking to hire a travel coordinator and advance person 18 months after Congress told her to cut back on the road trips. But there's less to this story than meets the eye. It's not like the Park Service is adding a new job to push more travel; it's just filling a vacancy. And, as a Park Service spokesman notes, the agency has cut 30 percent of domestic travel and 70 percent of international travel in the past year.