Politics

The American Public Transportation Association is looking for $42.5 billion in rail funding.

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."

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.

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.

Democratic leaders in the Assembly and Senate said they restored some of Gavin Newsom's proposed deficit-reducing cuts in their budget proposal.

The proposal to tax interest on out-of-district municipal bonds is a revenue-raising measure, though its path forward is far from certain.

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.

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.

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.

The Senate WRDA measure asks the Army Corps to report on best practices and lessons learned with its 10-year-old pilot P3 program.