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.
Matt Kane, night manager at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, says the restaurant has sold fewer ribs since the overpass collapse nearby.
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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.
Men from all over the United States came to Northern California to find work at Shasta Dam. Construction lasted seven years, from 1938-1945.
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Water, water everywhere in California, but no way to hold onto it

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

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.
Heavy traffic moves southbound and northbound along I-95 in Quantico, Virginia.
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Here are the economic highlights from Trump's first address to Congress

Mar 1, 2017
On the economic agenda: infrastructure, Obamacare and taxes.
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on Tuesday.
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Weekly Wrap: What's the plan?

Feb 24, 2017
Wrapping up the week in business news with Nela Richardson of Redfin and Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post.

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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

Jan 12, 2017
Airports are at the intersection of infrastructure and geopolitics.
Outbound travelers wait to pass through a TSA security screening area at Reagan National Airport, on December 22, 2016 in Arlington, Virginia. 
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Let's build infrastructure, but we better make it smart

Jan 5, 2017
In the age of self-driving cars and connected everything, roads and bridges must keep up.
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