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Another Band-Aid: House passes $7 billion to shore up the Highway Trust Fund
Well, it’s not the ideal solution, but this Band-Aid will at least keep the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) solvent. Just days before the HTF was going to run into the red, the House yesterday approved $7 billion to shore up the almost empty fund, according to a Reuters report in The Washington Post. This stop-gap […]
January 15, 2010
Business
The White House and the private sector
When the president seeks advice on how to manage the country, in particular the economy, he turns to his cabinet, some 400 plus people who are supposed to be experts in such things. That’s why this chart from a research report from J.P. Morgan is so startling. It shows that more than 90 percent of President […]
January 11, 2010
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Your guide to the basics of transportation decisionmaking
How do government officials decide where to put a bus stop, road, or bridge and how transportation projects are planned?  The Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) have created a guide to answer these and other transportation project-related questions.  Here’s a downloadable PDF, A Guide to Transportation Decisionmaking, to explain how all […]
January 11, 2010
Equipment
Oregon wants to ban aftermarket car parts
Give regulators an inch and they take a mile. This is what Oregon’s governor is proposing: “Restrictions and prohibitions on the sale and distribution of after-market motor vehicle parts, including but not limited to tires, if alternatives are available that decrease greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles;” This from a state that’s already $1.2 billion […]
January 11, 2010
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ARTBA sues EPA
I guess the gloves are off now. In a statement released yesterday the American Road & Transportation Builders Association said it filed suit April 17 against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The goal of the suit is to prevent the EPA from using the Clean Air Act in a way that allows individual states to create “a […]
January 10, 2010
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Construction workers picket Caltrans
California Department of Transportation announced it was suspending up to 100 construction projects, prompting a protest outside of the office of state senate leader Darrell Steinberg. The state is currently $42-billion in the red, despite having some of the highest taxation rates of any state in the country. To give you an comparative idea of how […]
January 6, 2010
Business
Construction business owner runs for mayor
Although he’s a late arrival, commercial construction contractor Glen Spencer has entered the race for mayor of Gilbert, Arizona, population 220,000. Spencer threw his hat into the ring as a write-in candidate after another candidate dropped out leaving the race uncontested. “When he did that, I saw an opening. That’s who I am and how I […]
January 6, 2010
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