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Schools could more adequately fund special education programs, pay teachers better, improve mental health services and undo budget losses from over the past 20 years. Nonprofit leaders say more grant

Any potholes filled in among other sweeping infrastructure proposals. but in that interview with garrett hague, joe manchin says that he is not budging on any plan that would allow democrats to go to alone on major legislation including infrastructure which the president hopes to make his signature policy. garrett hague is joining us now from morgantown, west virginia. and i know that you talked to him last night. i just came from newark, new jersey where a lot of guys are digging up streets bec...

Credit steve carmody / Michigan Radio Members of Michigan’s congressional delegation are among those waiting to see if a deal can be cut between the Biden administration and Republican leaders on a major infrastructure bill.  President Joe Biden met for nearly an hour Wednesday with the top Republican negotiator on infrastructure, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito. Time is running out to strike a bipartisan deal, but they have agreed to reconnect Friday. The president is proposing $1.7 trillion for ...

There are things, for example, that werent included in their counterproposal that i know for a fact theres a good number of republican support. for example, in my realm, many my column, investment in the transmission grid, i think theres broad bipartisan support we need to do that. same thing with the investment in the water infrastructure that leads to peoples houses, if it includes lead pipes. there are things like that in the american jobs plan that have not been part of the republican dow co...

Country, coast to coast. the biden infrastructure bill would wildly expand our electric vehicle charging stations. it will build 100 percent broadband access for everybody in the country. even in the most rural areas. it would shore up our ridge ridiculously fragile electric grid. it would puts of tons of people to work with doing things like replacing lead pipes in everybodys water systems. cleaning up abandoned oil oil wells, mines, gas wealth. sealing them up. theres a lot of work to be done ...

Today on Stateside , Governor Gretchen Whitmer has lifted the mask mandate for people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Two political strategists

President Biden wants to spend more than two trillion dollars rebuilding the nation’s aging infrastructure. One chunk of that would replace all lead pipes

A lead pipe (left) seen through a hole in the kitchen ceiling in the home of Desmond Odom, in Newark, New Jersey. AP Photo/Julio CortezPresident Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan includes a proposal to upgrade the U.S. drinking water distribution system by removing and replacing dangerous lead pipes. As a geochemist and environmental health researcher who has studied the heartbreaking impacts of lead poisoning in children for decades, I am happy to see due attention paid to this silent kill...

President Bidens infrastructure plan calls for money for water projects, capping abandoned wells President Joe Biden has released the details of his expansive infrastructure plan, and Colorado leaders are reacting to the possibilities. and last updated 2021-04-05 22:00:06-04 DENVER — President Joe Biden has proposed a $2.3 billion infrastructure plan that could wide-ranging impacts on Colorado if it’s passed. Colorado’s congressional Democrats are speaking out in favor of the bil...

The mayor was trying to say the water source from the reservoir was not contaminated. that was true. but what was coming out of their faucets, there was a significant amount where the water was not safe to drink. >> you know, dr. torres, when you read nicks story and you think about how big this country is and how common political dysfunction is, and you have all these inter mingling of agencies at different levels of government, weve seen it in flint, weve seen it in newark. are we likely to se...