Nov 30 2009
Then take a look through this site’s blogroll for some good links and add them to your RSS reader. Two just added and definitely worth checking out: The Infrastructure Show which features podcasts with Prof. Joseph Schofer of Northwestern Univeristy and The Infrastructurist which does a really great round-up of all the day’s infrastructure news. Action [...]
Nov 25 2009
If you have some time over the holiday weekend, check out this week’s series on National Public Radio on Road Safety. On the Road to Safety looks at road safety from a variety of angles: the commuter, the elderly, policy, and others, all get explored. Have a very Happy Thanksgiving from ASCE, and if [...]
Nov 19 2009
On Tuesday a bipartisan group of seven Senate Committee Chairs and Ranking Members, including Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Ranking Member James Inhofe (R-OK), sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), urging leadership to file cloture and move forward on a 6 [...]
Nov 17 2009
If you have some free time during your lunch hour today, check out this free webcast of National Journal’s Transportation Policy Briefing at 11:30 AM EST on Tuesday, November 17. The event will feature a keynote address from Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) and a panel of other transportation experts. Watch the live webcast or archive [...]
Nov 06 2009
The news this morning wasn’t good: unemployment in October climbed to a twenty-five year high of 10.2 percent and is expected to grow. More troubling for those of us in the infrastructure field, last month the economy also lost about 62,000 construction jobs. While the Obama administration estimates on recovery.gov that as of October 30, [...]