Infrastructure Needs To Challenge Secretary Designee Chao
Shepherding President Elect Trump’s promised ten year $1 trillion infrastructure construction program through a deficit shy and spending...
Trump Names Elaine Chao As Transportation Secretary Appointee
President Elect Trump has named Elaine Chao, former Deputy Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Labor under earlier Republican...
Pence, Trump and United Technologies Keep Carrier Jobs In Indiana
Without releasing the details of the arrangement, the Trump transition team has announced, and Carrier has confirmed, an agreement that...
Missouri Infrastructure Budget Faces Deep Pothole In Motor Fuel Tax Shortfall
Illinois is not the only state where increasing vehicle fuel economy and tax averse state legislators are combining to leave secondary...
Rebar Prices Headed Up After USITC Ruling
The prices of reinforcing steel for highway and other concrete construction projects will likely head up in the new year, following the...
Texas Federal Court Blocks Mandatory Overtime for High Salaried Workers
The U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has issued a nationwide injunction against enforcement of the Obama...
Countervailing Duties May Push Up Prices for Softwood Construction Lumber
A November 25 petition by U. S. softwood lumber producers Weyerhaeuser and Potlatch, together with the Carpenters Industrial Council,...
Will “Buy American” Infrastructure Legislation Launch US/Canada Trade War?
President Elect Trump’s sentiment favoring the preservation and repatriation of U. S. manufacturing jobs at all costs, coupled with...
Federal Court Blocks Enforcement of Labor Advice Disclosure Rule
November 16 U. S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings of the Northern District of Texas in Lubbock issued a permanent injunction blocking the...
Infrastructure Construction in a Trump Administration
Rosy predictions of doubled federal support for infrastructure construction across our nation under President Elect Donald Trump are...
