Missouri lawmakers send ban on project labor agreements to Greitens
Source: Celeste Bott, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 27, 2017 Missouri’s cities and counties could lose state funding if they force nonunion contractors to pay workers union wages for public...
View ArticleTrump’s Public-Private Infrastructure Vision Rejected in Texas
Source: Mark Niquette, Bloomberg, May 9, 2017 President Donald Trump’s plan to invest $1 trillion in U.S. infrastructure with the help of public-private partnerships has hit a speed bump in Texas....
View ArticleLawmakers Tour Penn Station as Christie, Cuomo Call for Privatization
Source: Lucy Yang, WABC, May 12, 2017 New Jersey state lawmakers toured Penn Station Friday to get a first-hand look at infrastructure in desperate need of repair after an ongoing wave of delays have...
View ArticleThe Road to Ruin: Can We Afford the Anti-Tax Movement?
Source: Ellen Dannin, Truthout, May 12, 2014 Experience has shown that the anti-tax movement is a luxury we cannot afford. Its clout and legislators’ fear of that clout means that taxes cannot be...
View Article‘Infrastructure Week’ Spurs Query on Trump’s Plan: Where Is It?
Source: Mark Niquette and John McCormick, Bloomberg, May 16, 2017 Leaders from business, government, organized labor and trade associations gathered in Washington for an annual week-long discussion...
View ArticleHow President Trump Might Carry The Torch Of Privatization
Source: Here & Now, WBUR, May 8, 2017 … Now President Trump is poised to continue privatization and private contracting in all kinds of industries, from education to incarceration. Here & Now’s...
View ArticleAuthorization To Fix The Crumbling BQE Faster Stalls In Albany
Source: Emma Whitford, Gothamist, July 12, 2017 Legislation that the Department of Transportation predicted could shave years and millions of dollars off of critical Brooklyn Queens Expressway...
View ArticleDenver’s 34-year deal at DIA might be the city’s first big public-private...
Source: Jon Murray, Denver Post, August 13, 2017 Denver International Airport’s proposed $1.8 billion terminal deal is poised to launch the city into a different kind of contracting that hands over...
View ArticleThe Untapped Wealth of American Cities
Source: Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak, CityLab, August 6, 2017 Americans who travel abroad sometimes wonder why many of our airports are lacking in comparison to the best international airports. Or...
View ArticleCongress must continue to block Trump plan to sell BPA
Source: Union-Bulletin Editorial Board, August 8, 2017 Late last month the U.S. House Budget Committee approved a budget resolution that rejects privatizing the transmission assets of the Bonneville...
View ArticleOpinion: Trump’s infrastructure order falls far short of his campaign promises
Source: David A. Super, The Hill, September 9, 2017 … With congressional Republicans allergic to finding new resources from anywhere except cutting programs for the poor and his own political influence...
View ArticleTaking the P3 Route to Reinvent Downtown
Source: Charles Renner, Public Management, July 27, 2017 … The past decade has seen a steady increase in the use of P3 structures, and 2016 was something of a watershed year with multiple high-profile...
View ArticleFleecing America’s builders
Source: Maryam Jameel, Center for Public Integrity, August 21, 2017 … The Wage and Hour Division must enforce at least 14 statutes across the nation’s 29 million businesses with a team of only 929...
View ArticleKC Council picks Edgemoor team for KCI terminal job
Source: Rob Roberts, Kansas City Business Journal, September 21, 2017 A joint meeting of two Kansas City Council committees voted Thursday in favor of selecting a team led by Edgemoor Infrastructure...
View ArticlePuerto Rico’s bondholders worried after Hurricane Maria turns out lights
Source: Francine McKenna, MarketWatch, September 21, 2017 If Puerto Rico is without power for months after Hurricane Maria, as authorities now warn, many investors in the $9 billion of Puerto Rico’s...
View ArticleCity-run Internet services still in limbo after FCC vote
Source: Allan Holmes, Center for Public Integrity, March 3, 2015 Cities must wait for FCC ruling and likely court fight before knowing if they can expand public Internet service. Related: Behind the...
View ArticleElon Musk Is Not the Hero Puerto Rico Needs
Source: Kate Aronoff, In These Times, October 11, 2017 … According to a tweet from the governor late last week, the two are now in talks about bringing renewable energy from Musk’s Tesla and SolarCity...
View ArticleNew Orleans’ summer of floods revives the threat of privatization
Source: Aviva Shen, ThinkProgress, October 20, 2017 This year’s spate of floods prompted sudden scrutiny of the city’s long-neglected infrastructure, but everyone knows the system is not fully...
View ArticleWhite House says it’s considering increasing the federal gas tax for...
Source: Ashley Halsey III, Washington Post, October 26, 2017 The White House is revisiting an increase in the federal gas tax to pay for infrastructure improvements President Trump promised to...
View ArticleOpinion: Puerto Rico suffers amid disaster capitalism
Source: Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan, Press Connects, November 5, 2017 There are people coming to the island, though: the disaster capitalists. As eloquently articulated by journalist Naomi Klein in...
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