Posted on Sunday February 1st by The Infrastructurist | 67
- Obama wants some school construction and other cuts restored to the final stimulus bill. Here are the House and Senate (it passed!) versions compared in very fine detail. (WSJ)
- Obama says that 675,000 construction jobs will be created by the stimulus bill. But for Tim Baxter of Atlanta and the other 7.5 million jobless people in the industry, the approval process for “shovel-ready” projects is looking awfully long. (CNN)
- Massachusetts could see $11 billion in stimulus money for infrastructure. Already the political process about how to spend it is getting “heated.” One politician observed that every town has already submitted a plan for its own Taj Mahal. (Boston Globe)
- The $47 billion in stimulus funding for high-tech infrastructure raises some questions about whether campaign contributors might be calling in favors from the Obama adminstration. (NYT)
- Nearly 50,000 people in Kentucky and Missouri were still without power two weeks after the ice storm that ravaged the area. “They forgot about us here,” says one woman who remembers when the impoverished southern Missouri county where she lives first got electricity under FDR. (Star Trib)
- Zoos in Denver and Dallas were both struck by power outages. (Denver Post/Dallas Morning News)
- Will South Carolina be the center of America’s nuclear energy revival? (Counterpunch)
- China started construction on the world’s longest natural gas pipeline. It will run extend more than 5,000 miles and will be operational in, ahem, 2011. Yes, things get built much, much faster in China. (Tehran Times)
