Interim DOT Commissioner Keith Golden is recommended for a permanent appointment as the commissioner . . .
State Rep. Rick Austin says he will run in the special election to replace Sen. Jim Butterworth, soon to become the state’s new adjutant general . . .
Vance Smith agrees to resign as commissioner of the embattled Department of Transportation, requiring the search to begin for the agency’s fourth commissioner in the past four years . . .
Gerald Ross, the DOT’s chief engineer, is going to be a very busy person as DOT Commissioner Vance Smith also puts him in charge of the department’s public-private construction projects . . .
Georgia gets a much-needed federal highway loan that will enable the Northwest Corridor toll lane project to stay on track . . .
Sen. Jack Murphy said he isn’t going anywhere — he’ll stay on as Banking Committee chairman; House Majority Whip Ed Lindsey names his team of deputies . . .
