Stories Tagged as
Infrastructure
Atlanta businesses are stuck while customers pass them by
Apr 5, 2017
An interstate bridge closed by a fire may not be fixed until June.
When Public Works employed millions
Apr 3, 2017
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
by
Jed Kim
Mar 22, 2017
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 […]
A public-private approach to improving infrastructure
by
Andy Uhler
Mar 9, 2017
Washington lawmakers differ on many issues but agree on the need to improve infrastructure here in the U.S. The American Society of Civil Engineers, in its annual report card today, gave America a D+ in overall infrastructure — roads, bridges, levies and the like. President Donald Trump has promised to improve that infrastructure and says […]
America’s infrastructure is underachieving
Mar 9, 2017
The grade: D+. But there were a few categories improved upon.
Here are the economic highlights from Trump's first address to Congress
Mar 1, 2017
On the economic agenda: infrastructure, Obamacare and taxes.
Weekly Wrap: What's the plan?
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Kai Ryssdal
Feb 24, 2017
Wrapping up the week in business news with Nela Richardson of Redfin and Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post.
For public good, not for profit.
Trump's infrastructure plan faces a fight on all fronts
Jan 24, 2017
President Trump has stated he wants to put together a trillion-dollar infrastructure spending plan. Democrats are all for it – they’ve even come up with a plan of their own. Republicans will likely push back on either option. Especially now that the CBO is projecting an increase in federal deficits for the first time in […]
A look at intelligence units, made just for airports
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Cerise Castle
Jan 12, 2017
Airports are at the intersection of infrastructure and geopolitics.
Let's build infrastructure, but we better make it smart
by
Molly Wood
Jan 5, 2017
In the age of self-driving cars and connected everything, roads and bridges must keep up.