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Like hundreds of billions in fraud. 

The U.S. government may be on the verge of spending as much as $4.5 trillion in what could be one of the biggest investments in infrastructure and the social safety net in decades. The House plans to vote on a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill on Sept...

The problem is lawmakers don’t always make preventing fraud a priority.

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Read Article Rumford Town Manager Stacy Carter cuts the ribbon Friday to celebrate completion of a multimillion-dollar, yearslong project to improve The Island business district. The ribbon’s message, More For You, is the town’s new theme. Bruce Farrin/Rumford Falls Times RUMFORD — Completion of the multimillion-dollar project to improve The Island business district was celebrated Friday, more than three years after it began. “This has been years in the making,” Town Manager Stacy ...

The event is produced by the Building Industry Association of Northern Kentucky.   “The Big Dig is designed to introduce youth of any age to the construction industry,” said Brian Miller, executive vice president of the trade association. “The Big Dig is our best long-term solution to meet the workforce development needs of the construction industry. For our visitors, operating heavy construction machinery is fun. That doesn’t change much as you grow up. Our industry needs tens of tho...

Uber’s first head of data science just raised a new venture fund to back nascent AI startups Kevin Novak joined Uber as its 21st employee its seventh engineer in 2011, and by 2014, he was the company’s head of data science. He talks proudly of that time, but like all good things, it ran its course and by the end of 2017, having accomplished what he wanted at the company, he left. At first, he picked up the pace of his angel investing, work he’d already begun focusing on during weekends an...

A major project to uncover possible 17th-century remains underneath Town Hall Square in Rochdale town centre gets...

The downtown highway has become a perennial on the Congress for the New Urbanism's roundup of urban freeways that could be transformed into boulevards