Tag: infrastructure
20 states sue Trump administration for ending FEMA disaster mitigation program
Democratic-led states say canceling the BRIC program violates federal law and endangers communities preparing for floods, fires, and other climate disasters.
The GOP’s Dirty Dozen: 12 ways Republicans use the federal government...
Anyone who votes for the Republican ticket out of general frustration or because they thrill to Trump's on-stage antics or mistrust people who seem different from themselves, should reflect on how a Republican victory will affect what really matters to all of us.
How the infrastructure program builds climate resilience and saves lives
“The ultimate responsibility of the government is to keep people safe.”
Tragedy strikes Baltimore: Key bridge collapse sends shockwaves through the community
The catastrophic collapse followed a collision with a container ship, thrusting the city into a state of emergency and sparking a frantic search-and-rescue operation for the missing.
Biden administration announces federal investment into modernizing power grid
This go around will include $3.46 billion in funds to strengthen and modernize the electric grid.
Biden administration announces largest direct federal investment in transmission and distribution...
The announcement to dedicate $13 billion in grants to improve transmission and distribution systems will "improve energy resiliency through microgrids, local renewable energy, and energy storage.”
The biggest infrastructure project of all: Rebuilding a crumbling US government
The most important part of an infrastructure program would be to restore the principles of ethics and morality into the minds of our Congressional representatives.
Big money’s war on the Build Back Better plan
The administration’s jobs and infrastructure package is very popular, but corporate lobbyists are fighting it tooth and nail.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.