Infrastructure

The American Rescue Plan provides $1.6 billion in transit dollars to a region stretching from Los Angeles to Anaheim.

The legislation is likely to end up as part of a larger infrastructure bill.

The twin ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles reported a 50% increase in imports in February on a year-over-year basis.

Planning will require favorable tax policies, sophisticated capital programing, bond financing, and pioneering public-private partnerships. It also requires a cohesive national, bipartisan infrastructure plan as a foundation to begin addressing this impending infrastructure crisis.

San Diego’s regional planning agency is trying to figure out what the world will look like after the pandemic recedes.

Although all of the proposals have some bipartisan support in Congress, the extent of that support remains unclear.

The governor spotlighted his five-year infrastructure spending plan during the speech held amid the threat of a recall.

The pandemic has caused some special circumstances for state and local governments in juggling their finances. Jeffrey Previdi, the vice-chairman of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board who spent more than 20 years of his career at S&P Global Ratings, talks about what his regulatory organization has done to assist them. Previdi also talked about how GASB influences how state and local governments spend taxpayer money on such things as schools, firehouses, water treatment plants, and other infrastructure. Brian Tumulty hosts. (25 minutes)

They assumed their jobs over the past year in the face of a pandemic, civil unrest and financial uncertainties, and in an industry often set in its ways.

U.S. Deputy Transportation Secretary nominee and former New York City official Polly Trottenberg called it 'a project of national significance.'