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infrastructure stories: 38 news summaries

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 73% of Americans Back Obama 

Poll reveals reservoir of national goodwill for prez-elect

Dec 11, 08 4:19 AM CST
(Newser) - President-elect Barack Obama will begin his term of office with an enormous reservoir of goodwill among American voters, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. The poll found 73% of adults approve of his preparations to take over, with even 29% of John McCain voters now viewing Barack Obama... More »

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Iraq • John McCain • terrorism • Bill Clinton • infrastructure • David Axelrod • economy • George W. Bush • personal approval • financial crisis • President Obama

OPINION

Infrastructure Revitalization Is Right and Right

A conservative argues for investing in water, energy, transport

Dec 8, 08 12:12 PM CST
(Newser) - Conservatives who fear that investing in the nation’s infrastructure goes against core Reaganite values need to get over it. Our aging energy, water, and transportation systems are in dire need of corporate dollars and ingenuity, but “the private sector alone cannot handle the job—and the states are... More »

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economics • electricity • Reagan Revolution • investment • transportation • infrastructure • Treasury Department • drinking water • conservative base

Obama Outlines Ike-Style Public Works Push

May quickly provide infrastructure funding; states want $136B

Dec 6, 08 10:30 AM CST
(Newser) - President-elect Obama pledged today to approve billions in government expenditures on public works projects when he assumes office, the New York Times reports. Invoking Eisenhower’s Interstate program, Obama said “we will create millions of jobs,” possibly by funding some or all of $136 billion in infrastructure... More »

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Barack Obama • infrastructure • transition • economic stimulus package • Election 2008 • Dwight Eisenhower • President Obama • spending package • public works • Interstate system

Guvs to Obama: Public Works Projects Will Take Time

Programs may take a while to start

Dec 3, 08 1:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s plan to throw hundreds of billions of dollars into state infrastructure projects may not be as effective as he imagines in stimulating the economy, some state officials say. Yesterday, governors told the president-elect that they had $136 billion in projects ready to go, but the National Governors... More »

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Barack Obama • Arnold Schwarzenegger • infrastructure • economic stimulus package • financial crisis • National Governors Association • President Obama

(Newser) - Barack Obama says he will move quickly once in office to enact an ambitious, two-year plan to save or create 2.5 million jobs, Bloomberg reports. Obama announced his plan in his weekly radio address, where he also warned that “we risk falling into a deflationary spiral that could... More »

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Barack Obama • alternative energy • infrastructure • credit crisis • economic stimulus package • green revolution • job creation • President Obama • economic downturn

ANALYSIS

 US Infrastructure 
 Is a 'Bridge to 
 Almost Nowhere' 

Infrastructure spending is critical, but not on bridges to nowhere

Nov 19, 08 10:02 AM CST
(Newser) - Recently the House passed an $18 billion infrastructure bill, and Barack Obama has indicated that he'll ask for billions more in spending to create jobs while improving the nation's roads and bridges. But as New York Times columnist David Leonhardt writes, insufficient investment is only part of the problem. At... More »

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Barack Obama • London • government spending • transportation • infrastructure • bridges • House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

 Public Works Eyed 
 as Economic Jumpstart 

Economists increasingly look to infrastructure spending for job creation

Nov 9, 08 5:11 PM CST
(Newser) - Once dismissed as too slow to address America’s quick slide into crisis, New Deal-esque public works projects are becoming increasingly attractive as long-term economic troubles look likely to set in, the Los Angeles Times reports. Infrastructure spending will likely be a major component of the upcoming Obama-backed, multibillion-dollar stimulus... More »

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infrastructure • New Deal • economic stimulus package • job • financial crisis

OPINION

Brooks: Want Real Economic Stimulus? Fix the Roads

A National Mobility Project would create jobs, leaving lasting impact: Brooks

Oct 31, 08 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Panic is afoot, so of course, Congress is bearing down on another stimulus package, though the last one seems to have missed the mark. These “politically designed, ad hoc” measures “amount to an economic sugar rush,” David Brooks writes in the New York Times. If he’s... More »

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alternative energy • infrastructure • highways • economic stimulus package • financial crisis

OPINION

Green Economy Will Be Obama's First Big Challenge

No easy task to convince Congress to sacrifice its own self-interest

Oct 30, 08 9:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - What’s on the front burner for a hypothetical Obama administration? Most of Washington seems to be jockeying for spots in the Cabinet, but Joe Klein of Time points out that Barack Obama (or John McCain) will be the first president since FDR to inherit neither peace nor prosperity. Obama’... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • infrastructure • Election 2008 • green-collar jobs

 American Airports: 
 Shiny, New, and Empty 

Decades-long projects completed as industry turns down

Oct 30, 08 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the boom years of the last decade, cities across America broke ground on major airport expansions, from additional runways to new terminals. Now those projects are being completed—just as air travel has slowed and hundreds of planes are being grounded. Flights may be less congested, writes the New ... More »

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airline • airport • air travel • infrastructure • economy

States Fret as Road Salt Grows Scarce, Pricey

Last year's winter depleted reserves

Oct 6, 08 3:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Road salt is stressing state and municipal budgets as shortages drive prices up well past what local governments have paid in the past, USA Today reports. A harsh winter last year left many states with no salt reserves to carry over, meaning they have to fully restock at inflated prices.... More »

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New Hampshire • Ohio • road budget • infrastructure • ice • winter • salt • state spending • state governments • budgets • city government • local politics

OPINION

Petraeus' Iraq Strategy
Is Ill-Suited to Afghanistan

Counterinsurgency expert may need to learn a few new tricks to quell Taliban rebellion

Oct 6, 08 2:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Gen. David Petraeus faces an uphill battle in replicating the successes of the Iraq surge in Afghanistan, Michael Evans writes in the Times of London, “because the economic, social and political conditions are so different.” Afghanistan doesn’t have nearly the natural, fertile resources, and neither the US... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • War on Terror • Taliban • Middle East • David Petraeus • surge • opium • infrastructure

Foreign Companies Cash In on Stable Iraq

Baghdad aggressively courts international investment

Jul 22, 08 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - With security and stability on the rise, Iraq’s government is turning its attention, and its generous budget, toward reconstruction. That’s led to some big opportunities for Western businesses, which are scrambling to get a cut of the country’s $25 billion reconstruction budget. Iraq, which lacks the resources... More »

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Iraq • foreign investment • Iraq government • infrastructure • Iraq contractors • Iraq reconstruction

OPINION

Here Comes
Era of Activist Government

It's necessary, and McCain is better suited for the job: Brooks

Jul 18, 08 10:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - With daunting issues demanding immediate action—energy, the markets, and crumbling infrastructure to name but a few—the US is about to enter a phase of "government activism," writes David Brooks in the New York Times. Bad news for John McCain, right? Maybe not. As past periods of... More »

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health care • energy • John McCain • politics • financial markets • infrastructure • change • Teddy Roosevelt • conservatives • Benjamin Disraeli

 Levees Crumbling,
 Midwest Struggles
 to Stem Tide 

Aging infrastructure is barely coping with severe weather

Jun 12, 08 8:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The worst flooding in 15 years has exposed some serious vulnerabilities in the Midwest's aging infrastructure, the Chicago Tribune reports. Levees, bridges, and dams, some a century old, are barely coping with severe storms—while some are collapsing completely. Dikes and levees broke in several states last week after torrential... More »

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Iowa • Wisconsin • Midwest • severe weather • Indiana • flood • flooding • Illinois • bridge • infrastructure • levees

An Oil Giant, Alaska Faces Gas Crisis

Poor infrastructure, focus on oil exploration behind costly supply issues

Jan 24, 08 8:07 AM CST
(Newser) - Alaska—home of America's largest energy reserves—is facing a major energy crunch. The problem is a lack of infrastructure to get natural gas where it needs to be, the Christian Science Monitor reports. "It's the goofiest thing in the world, to be sitting on top of some of... More »

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energy • oil • Alaska • alternative energy • infrastructure • gas prices • natural gas • oil supply • oil drilling

US Hurricane Aid
Snarled in Red Tape

$3.5B to replace schools and firehouses languishing in accounts

Jan 11, 08 3:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Billions of dollars in FEMA aid earmarked for rebuilding infrastructure pulverized by the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes have yet to be spent on thousands of important projects such as replacing schools and firehouses, USA Today reports. Out of $4.5 billion in aid to Louisiana and Mississippi, only $1 billion... More »

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Hurricane Katrina • Louisiana • aid • FEMA • infrastructure • Gulf Coast • Katrina aftermath

Why Small Government
Has Collapsed

Prospect writer says Dems can drown movement in bathtub

Aug 8, 07 6:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats have never been so well positioned to sell big-government liberalism—as the other side looks pathetically out of step with Americans’ desires to expand health care and bolster infrastructure, says the American Prospect’s Paul Waldman. After the Minnesota bridge collapse, the public is ready for the party that... More »

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health care • Hillary Clinton • Democrats • health insurance • Americans • SCHIP • infrastructure • Andrew Sullivan • George W. Bush

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