Infrastructure

A VMT fee was also the consensus way to pay for infrastructure during a Senate EPW Committee hearing on Wednesday.

The P3 taxable deal aims to replace the state’s old, dilapidated and outdated jails with more modern alternatives in a bid to ease prison overcrowding and provide new services to inmates.

Instead of trying to spend more within traditional programs, the federal government should design more modern policy, Brookings experts said.

Municipal bonds, issued by state and local governments, finance infrastructure investment and should be the foundation of any modernization package.

Roddy Devlin, a partner at Nixon Peabody, explores President Biden's $2.3 trillion bill, which he says "dwarfs anything we've seen for decades." Paul Burton hosts. (23 minutes)

If an infrastructure bill does go through a partisan route, municipal bonds’ future could be very fluid.

These so-called American Renewal Bonds would help finance a national infrastructure initiative until the economy sufficiently recovers from the pandemic.

The EPA would be responsible for administering the new grant program, should it become reality.

America simply cannot compete globally, especially with China, without an infrastructure-driven advanced manufacturing and inventive base.

Over the weekend, prominent senators criticized President Biden's infrastructure plan, with some more moderate senators' votes hanging in the balance.

The funding would come on top on multi-billion measures proposed by lawmakers — and a $100 billion in spending included in President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan.

Recent one-time funds from the American Rescue Plan Act and higher-than-projected revenues for many states are in many cases being put into infrastructure.

The municipal bond industry faces many obstacles and opportunities from the pandemic. But 83% of surveyed participants think munis have made it through the worst.

Municipal bond industry leaders weighed in on their expectations for 2021 during a panel discussion at The Bond Buyer's National Outlook Conference.

Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, combined with the shortened week and the arrival of the second quarter, took attention away from the muni market.

Municipal bond provisions were not mentioned, but stakeholders expect those details to be hashed out in what is likely to be a protracted battle in Congress.

Gov. Ralph Northam and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg announced the agreements with Amtrak, CSX and Virginia Railway Express.

Transportation fare and tax revenues lost to the coronavirus can be countered with federal relief funding, says the Illinois Economic Policy Institute.

Gov. Tom Wolf said the tax has become unreliable for funding the commonwealth's vast network.

The Dallas Area Rapid Transit Authority will seek a federal grant for the light rail tunnel with the support of the City Council.