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Obama's Multibillion-Dollar High-Speed Rail Plan Full Steam Ahead?

Choo choo! President Barack Obama is preparing to call for a six-year, $53 billion project to create high-speed rail in the U.S. His budget, which will be released next week, will include an initial $8 billion. There's "$10.5 billion already in the pipeline," says USA Today, pointing to $8 billion from the 2009...

Opinion: Democrats Need a Pro-Growth Message

(Dec. 16) -- With President Barack Obama facing an outpouring of criticism from his party base following the tax-and-spending deal cut with congressional Republicans, it is time for the base to face reality: The Democrats' message on the economy is not working. Voters are not misguided or confused or too angry and upset...

Obama Calls for Fixing Roads -- Why Now?

(Oct. 12) -- President Barack Obama is again calling for an "overhaul" of U.S. infrastructure, this time following the publication of a report showing infrastructure spending could create jobs and help the economy. To supporters, this is a classic "kill two birds with one stone" scenario: modernize the nation's failing,...

Obama Touts $50 Billion Transportation Proposal

WASHINGTON (Oct. 11) - President Barack Obama on Monday lobbied for Republican support from Capitol Hill for a burst of spending on transportation projects, calling his proposal a jobs creator for the middle class and an overdue investment in the country's foundation. "There's no reason why we can't do this," Obama said...

Obama to Back $50B in Infrastructure Spending

WASHINGTON (Sept. 6) -- President Barack Obama is asking Congress to approve at least $50 billion in long-term spending in the nation's roads, railways and runways in a pre-election effort to show he's trying to stimulate the sputtering economy. The infrastructure spending is part of a package of targeted proposals the...

infrastructure News From the Web

02/10/12 Resettlement action plan in Ashanti region Source: The World Bank Group The objective of the Additional Financing for the Urban Water Project for Ghana is to improve the physical conditions and capacities of the water supply systems by expanding them to meet 2011 demands.
02/09/12 Metro intervenes to help belly-up subdivisions... Source: The City Paper - Nashville TN Nashville residential subdivisions that were built during the housing boom but stalled during the nation's economic downturn are in line for Metro aid to complete unfinished streets, sidewalks and other infrastructure, under a Mayor Karl Dean administration plan.
02/09/12 SEIN Analytics & Asset Management Makes Post-Gigabit... Source: PRWeb Kansas City, MO (PRWEB) February 09, 2012 Since SEIN Analytics & Asset Management walked away with the $100,000 Grand Prize at The Gigabit Challenge Finale earlier this year, the Brooklyn-based startup has begun developing plans for 2012 that include hiring, creating deals, marketing and formulating new business structures.
02/08/12 Kenya - Lake Turkana Wind Project : resettlement... Source: The World Bank Group The Lake Turkana Wind Project aims to provide 300MW of reliable, low cost wind energy to the national grid, equivalent to over 20 percent of the current installed electricity generating capacity.
02/07/12 Virginia's WVWA Selects Innovyze InfoNet, InfoNet... Source: TenLinks.com Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for wet infrastructure, today announced that Western Virginia Water Authority (WVWA) in Roanoke, Virginia, has implemented the Innovyze InfoNet and InfoNet Mobile solution across its enterprise.

Background on infrastructure

Infrastructure is basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function.

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