Politics and policy
Politics and policy
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The American Public Transportation Association is looking for $42.5 billion in rail funding.
June 3 -
Recognizing the formidable construction challenges, the White House has created a Nuclear Power Project Management and Delivery working group "to help identify opportunities to proactively mitigate sources of cost and schedule overrun risk."
June 3 -
Oregon Democrats and Republicans had opposite takes on the possibility the state could be dispersing a kicker credit of $582 million for the 2025-27 biennium.
May 31 -
The first chip in the state's triple-A crown comes ahead of plans to competitively auction $1.2 billion of general obligation bonds next week.
May 31 -
Democratic leaders in the Assembly and Senate said they restored some of Gavin Newsom's proposed deficit-reducing cuts in their budget proposal.
May 31 -
The proposal to tax interest on out-of-district municipal bonds is a revenue-raising measure, though its path forward is far from certain.
May 30 -
The new law was modeled after a North Carolina law and its use in Charlotte, said Matt Wiltshire, president of Pathway Affordable Housing Corporation, which works to develop affordable rental housing in Nashville.
May 30 -
Fifteen years after a $9.9 billion bond issue that was to finance a substantial portion of a new high-speed rail line across California, the proposal "has become one of the most troubled megaprojects in the nation," said Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo.
May 30 -
The rating agency said legislation signed into law this month to limit annual property tax revenue growth to 5.5% could reduce commercial property collections.
May 29 -
The Senate WRDA measure asks the Army Corps to report on best practices and lessons learned with its 10-year-old pilot P3 program.
May 29 -
A city council committee received staff recommendations to fully fund the Police and Fire Pension System within 30 years.
May 28 -
California senators approved a tax measure to raise $1.5 billion after the bill's author promised further tweaks to occur on the Assembly side.
May 28 -
A pair of muni market experts propose cities and towns borrow through state-based, credit-enhanced bond banks to make the market more efficient.
May 28 -
The move to reclassify marijuana as a less-dangerous drug comes amid slowing growth of cannabis-related tax revenue in states that legalized it, like Colorado.
May 28 -
As EVs and fuel-efficient cars become more common, states and Congress are eying alternative revenues like road user charges.
May 24 -
Population growth has spurred economic growth in the South. But the changing climate, and risks climate change poses there, may turn that equation on its head.
May 23 -
Local rainfall standards, which affect the design of everything from roads to bridges and stormwater systems, offer a clue whether a city or state is taking infrastructure resilience seriously. Outdated standards remain in many areas, like in the Pacific Northwest.
May 23 -
Palm Beach County residents are using a Florida law passed last year aimed at ESG investing to challenge its county's investment in Israel bonds.
May 23 -
Signature Bank owned nearly $15 billion of mortgages across four of New York's five boroughs, making it the largest lender to rent-regulated housing in the city.
May 22 -
A strong project pipeline has P3 advocates hopeful for the future, despite some lackluster recent numbers.
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