Serious maintenance issues continue to plague Washington’s transit system, but securing a dependable funding source remains the biggest hurdle
Housing and Transportation
Read about affordable housing; access to transportation; roadways; bridges and tunnels; crumbling infrastructure; railroads; Amtrak; trucking; interstate highway system; science and technology; land use;
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The Perils of P3s
A new Economic Policy Institute report finds that public-private partnerships are “economic snake oil.” Exhibit A is North Carolina’s Interstate 77 project.
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Elaine Chao Keeps Mum
The Transportation Department nominee declines to lift the curtain on the president-elect’s infrastructure revitalization vision.
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Public Infrastructure as Stealth Privatization
Trump’s infrastructure plans could raise costs, enrich financiers, and fleece the public.
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The Art of the Infrastructure Deal
Donald Trump may want to see serious dollars invested in infrastructure, but can he wring trillions out of Mitch McConnell?
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Ben Carson, the GOP, and Subsidized Housing
Conservatives will tap into Clinton-era thinking on welfare reform to reshape public housing and voucher programsÂ
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Thinking Big on Labor Day
Investing trillions in infrastructure could help stimulate the economy and prepare our society for 21st-century challenges.
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The Coming Disaster Assistance Battles
Climate change is fueling more natural disasters, but Congress is too busy bickering to respond, and more federal aid may be needed.
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Detroit’s Field of Dreams
How a grassroots group of baseball fans battled the Detroit power structure to revitalize a historic baseball field.
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Philly’s New Mayor
How many progressive changes can Jim Kenney bring to an old-style city with an antique political culture?
