Leaders of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee released a bipartisan, six-year surface transportation bill May 12 that would maintain spending on federal-aid highways at current levels plus inflation. The $252 billion bill would authorize new spending on freight programs, add award grants for states’ best practices that save time and costs, and maintain [...]
America’s past economic success was built upon infrastructure development. It was in 1806 that Congress appropriated the first funds for a federally funded road that stretched from Maryland to Illinois. Over the next two centuries, the American infrastructure expanded to include 160,000 miles of railway tracks, 12,000 miles of commercially active, navigable waterways, four million [...]
The annual Survey of Mining Companies for 2013 conducted by the Fraser Institute, ranks Arizona 20th out of 112 jurisdictions worldwide, as a place to mine, based on perceptions by mining executives. In the previous survey, Arizona ranked 28th out of 96 jurisdictions (countries, states, and provinces). Wyoming (#5), Nevada (#8), Minnesota (#15), Utah (#16), [...]