by Caroline Vakil | Mar 7, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — The Highway Trust Fund, which provides federal funding to highway and transit programs, is expected to run out of money by 2020, but experts disagreed on whether to raise gas taxes or try alternative means to generate more revenue during a House highways...
by Kristina Karisch & Anna Laffrey | Mar 1, 2018 | Environment, Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Puerto Rico needs a new “Marshall plan” — a massive U.S. effort to help Europe rebuild after World War II — to recover from the massive devastation caused by Hurricane Maria, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Thursday. Warren and two other...
by Caroline Vakil | Mar 1, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — One Amtrak passenger train collided with a CSX freight train while traveling in South Carolina on Feb. 4 resulting in two deaths and over 100 people injured. On Jan. 31, another train carrying passengers to a GOP retreat hit a garbage truck in...
by Maggie Harden | Mar 1, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao testified in support of President Trump’s infrastructure plan at a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing Thursday, despite serious criticism over the plan’s funding gaps. “Infrastructure is the...
by Caroline Vakil | Feb 27, 2018 | Education, Featured, Living, Topics
WASHINGTON — Regina Montoya, a senior at California State University, Sacramento, is managing a busy schedule this semester: two internships and a full course load. But she used to face a very different challenge: when the dorms were closed, she was homeless....
by Anna Laffrey | Feb 27, 2018 | Living
WASHINGTON — Raquel Williams-Jones has organized tent cities, volunteered on civic boards and founded a resident-driven housing organization. Soon, she’ll take on a new job — as a “service coordinator” for public housing residents under a new round of...
by Anna Laffrey | Feb 23, 2018 | Featured, Living, Technology
A Tesla Model S that was cruising at highway speeds rammed into the back of a parked fire truck on a freeway in Culver City, CA in late January. The man behind the wheel claimed his car was running on Tesla’s enhanced autopilot system. But shouldn’t he still have...
by Maggie Harden | Feb 21, 2018 | Living
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s infrastructure proposal sets aside $50 billion in block grants specifically for rural infrastructure projects — 25 percent of the proposed $200 billion federal infrastructure funding – but the money may not end up helping...
by Jakob Lazzaro | Feb 19, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Frederick County’s bridges are in better shape than the national average, but improvements are still needed, according to newly released data from the Federal Highway Administration. According to the 2017 National Bridge Inventory, over 50,000 of...
by Anna Laffrey | Jan 30, 2018 | Living, SOTU2018
WASHINGTON–President Donald Trump said a proposed infrastructure plan would build a “gleaming” America in his first State of the Union address. He called on Congress to draft a bill that generates at least $1.5 trillion in new infrastructure...
by Caroline Vakil | Jan 26, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s annual budget proposal for fiscal 2019 is scheduled to be released Feb. 12 even as Congress tries to approve a spending bill for this year that would continue to fund the government past the current short-term spending...
by Rachel Frazin | Jan 25, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science, Living
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service is “unprepared to police the mail arriving in our country” that contains illegal drugs, especially opioids, the head of a Senate homeland security investigations subcommittee said Thursday. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, said the...
