Maryland Gov. Warns Motorists To Stay Off Roads
Wednesday's winter storm brought near-whiteout conditions on the East Coast. Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley has been urging people throughout his state to stay off the roads. He's warned drivers — don't expect to see pavement on most roads until the end of the week. Michele Norris talks to Gov. O'Malley about conditions in Maryland.
On today's Planet Money: We hear and read stories of corruption every day, but finding cold hard data on the subject is so hard that MIT economics professor, Ben Olken, had to go dig up roads in Indonesia to get some. Olken and his team set out to measure the amount of raw materials that went missing when the government gave local villagers money for projects like building roads. The study not only required the researchers to dig up roads -- but also to build a few of their own. Download the podcast; or subscribe. Music: Broken Bells' "High Road." Find us: Twitter/ Facebook/ Flickr.