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As officials continue to investigate the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, the collision involving the Dali, a 100,000-ton cargo vessel, and the 50-year-old span is renewing questions and concerns about America’s aging infrastructure.
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Amtrak service between Albany and New York City has been disrupted by a crumbling building.
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During a stop in Waterbury, Vermont Wednesday Democrat Peter Welch talked about work is getting done in the Senate.
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The city of Albany is stepping up its efforts to build the infrastructure needed to electrify the city’s transportation networks.
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited the Capital Region today to announce that the New York State Thruway Authority’s project to restore the Castleton-on-Hudson Bridge will receive $21 million in federal funds.
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During his weekly briefing today, Vermont Governor Phil Scott and members of his administration said the state legislature must set aside matching funds for infrastructure projects.
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The City of Schenectady has officially reopened the Francis Avenue Bridge over Interstate 890.
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Federal money should cover fixes for almost 500 crumbling bridges in the state
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As people reach for social justice and better lives, they create public goods—free education, public health, open parks, clean water, and many others—that must be kept out of the market. When private interests take over, they strip public goods of their power to lift people up, creating instead a tool to diminish democracy, further inequality, and separate us from each other. "The Privatization of Everything," by Donald Cohen, the founder of In the Public Interest, an organization dedicated to shared prosperity and the common good, chronicles the efforts to turn our public goods into private profit centers.
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First tranche of funding from bipartisan infrastructure law is announced