by Charlotte Ehrlich | Mar 25, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – As digital platforms redefine news consumption habits, several outlets face challenges in maintaining trust from partisan audiences. The internet and social media have intensified sensationalism and polarization. With Super Tuesday results setting...
by Charlotte Ehrlich | Mar 12, 2024 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — President Biden boasted his administration’s infrastructure investments — with an emphasis on clean energy projects — in his State of the Union address to the nation Thursday evening. In his opening remarks about the economy, Biden noted his...
by Charlotte Ehrlich | Feb 29, 2024 | Environment, Featured
BLYTHEWOOD, S.C. — Gregory Bledsoe, 23, gazed out over the dimly lit field bordering the town cemetery in Blythewood, S.C., just outside of the state capital of Columbia. The distant sound of Amtrak’s Silver Star line seemed to get louder as he shook his head at the...
by Charlotte Ehrlich | Feb 26, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Voters across the Palmetto State arrived at the polls as early as 7 a.m. Saturday, eager to cast their ballots for the Republican they prefer to represent the party in the presidential election in November. Though South Carolina is candidate Nikki...
by Charlotte Ehrlich | Feb 20, 2024 | Business, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case involving commercial truckers that could expand the definition of transportation workers to include people who drive goods for companies that are not in the transportation sector. The case,...
by Charlotte Ehrlich | Feb 15, 2024 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – Officials from the construction, manufacturing and transportation industries outlined to lawmakers the challenges they are facing in implementing President Biden’s Build America, Buy America provisions enacted as part of the Infrastructure Investment and...
by Charlotte Ehrlich | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Representatives on the House Transportation Committee grilled Federal Aviation Administrator Michael Whitaker Tuesday about air traffic controller shortages, near misses and the blowout of a door panel midflight on a Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet on an Alaska...
by Charlotte Ehrlich | Jan 30, 2024 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Experts in the commercial shipping industries outlined the ever-increasing humanitarian and economic costs of recent Iran-backed Houthi militant strikes on American ships positioned in the Red Sea during a subcommittee hearing on Tuesday. The continuing...
by Charlotte Ehrlich | Jan 25, 2024 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers on Thursday stressed the urgency of renewing the National Flood Insurance Program, with reforms to rein in ever-increasing premiums that are becoming harder for homeowners to afford. The Senate Banking Committee is working to reauthorize the...
by Charlotte Ehrlich | Jan 17, 2024 | Business, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON – Congressional lawmakers and witnesses examined whether slower U.S. infrastructure growth and disruptions in the supply chain are hurting basic transportation needs during a hearing on Wednesday assessing the state of the industry. Rep. David Rouzer...
