CNBC » Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has two pitches ready for President Donald Trump when he visits the White House: Offering to invest Australian pension money in U.S. infrastructure, and attempting to convince the U.S. to rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
MLive » Michael Glasgow, who also previously served as the operator in charge of the Flint water plant, testified Thursday, Feb. 22, that he asked city officials for more time to prepare for full-time water treatment in early 2014, had his request denied, and finally turned to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for help.
Reno Gazette Journal » The federal government began work Wednesday on replacing border wall in California, the first wall contract awarded in the Trump administration outside of eight prototypes that were built last year in San Diego. Customs and Border Protection is replacing a little more than 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) in downtown Calexico, a sliver of […]
CNBC » Municipal bonds are expected to be considerably scarcer in 2018, with one firm projecting a “steep decline” in issuance. Rising yields are raising costs for governments, while changes in tax laws have made munis less appealing. Already, January issuance fell 26 percent from the same period in 2017 and dropped 57 percent from December, which […]
The CT Mirror » Connecticut could implement a “strategic and incremental” widening of Interstate 95 to relieve congestion along the state’s shoreline without having to take huge swaths of private property by eminent domain, a game-changer for breaking gridlock in Fairfield County, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Thursday.
Dallas News » Funds to improve three highway logjams are being used as leverage to persuade the Texas Transportation Commission to build LBJ East, the 10.8 miles of Interstate 635 between Interstate 30 and Central Expressway that has been deemed the region’s top transportation project. The three potentially endangered projects are the Interstate 30 bridge over Lake […]