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Mayors are hungry for details about Trump’s infrastructure plan
More than 250 mayors are in Miami Beach for the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors. A White House infrastructure adviser is there, too, and city leaders have plenty of questions. What’s in Trump’s infrastructure plan as far as federal partnerships with cities and states? The plan includes about 200 million in federal spending to leverage […]
Trump’s talk about waterway infrastructure had ‘a lot of red meat’ for the industry
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We just need to figure out the trillion-dollar funding, the president of a Mississippi barge company says.
Expect to see more foreign investment in US infrastructure
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A Saudi announcement of $20 billion to invest in US infrastructure could be just the beginning of more overseas money for domestic projects.
More than 500 infrastructure projects are pitched to Trump, who will favor private money and speed
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States, unions, campaign advisers and consultants flood the White House with proposals. The president’s pledge to cut regulations and his condition for funding – “If you have a job that you can’t start within 90 days … it doesn’t help us” – risks leaving critical construction and repair behind.
Infrastructure: What needs fixing in your neighborhood?
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Marketplace Weekend wants to know about the infrastructure in your community.
Give Budget Director Mick Mulvaney a beer and he’ll tell you a lot
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The Trump administration's Office of Management and Budget head talks about the federal debt, infrastructure costs and lifting the hiring freeze.
A bipartisan approach could save Trump’s tax reform
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Linking infrastructure to tax reform could draw more votes, says Jason Furman of the Peterson Institute.
Atlanta businesses are stuck while customers pass them by
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An interstate bridge closed by a fire may not be fixed until June.
When Public Works employed millions
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Mass unemployment during the Great Depression led to hundreds of thousands of infrastructure projects all over America.
Water, water everywhere in California, but no way to hold onto it
California’s had one of the wettest winters on record — more than twice as much rain and snow as in an average year. That’s especially wild since we’re six years into a historic drought. But California doesn’t have enough dams, reservoirs or other storage. So instead of using it, all that precipitation just joins the […]