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Retaining wall being built at the home of Barletta Supervisors daughters home GoLocal has tracked the transportation of concrete retaining wall blocks from the 6/10 construction site in Providence to the home of the daughter of Barletta Engineering’s supervisor in Weymouth, MA for the familys private use.   The contract to Barletta and its partners was awarded by the Rhode Island Department of Transportation -- and is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Twice this week, massive concret...

Basically, I never have known what Republicans were, except they seemed to be for money, while the Democrats seemed to be for ordinary people. But those were my childish impressions growing up in San ...

That is more. oh, theres more. mobile id cards, emergency roadside service... more technology. i can even add a new driver... ...right from her phone! geico. expect great savings and a whole lot more. with that in mind the president will be traveling to richfield, ohio, to deliver remarks on his infrastructure initiative before ai an audience of auto workers, operating engineers, local 18, diversified trade union, representing heavy equipment operators, mechanics

Ive got nothing but a record of growth, of inclusion, of lifting people. of you know, just being a regular guy. and i think its hard to put me in a box. and i think that might be part of my problem. >> you could get democrats to cross over and get the reagan appeal. >> i won 86 out of 88 counties in ohio. 60% of the women vote. 26% of the african-americans and 51% of union households, after all the issues i have with organized labor, i was endorsed by the building trades, the operating engineers...

Get their four-year degree through a distance learning program, again, with accredited four-year universities. at the end of the day, almost no debt, journeyman status and they earn hundreds of thousands of dollars whether they went through their education. >> how can people get more information and get involved with this? there are so many people, especially in our communities, sean, that really would benefit from this. >> go to bctd.org. it has a listing of our organizations, 300 local buildin...

>> let me ask you about the cab and what youre doing. theres apparently a red button youre pushing constantly to indicate youre a wake, functions. this is a constant motion. youre also looking at a screen, looking at the equivalent of odometer i suppose. then theres emergency brake. its a fairly complicated mission. why arent there routinely two people in that cab as there are two pilots? what if you have a physical problem? what if you have distress? what if you need to go to the restroom? >> t...

>> igor, why is king slamming other republicans? >> youre going to see this tension. if he is serious about running for president we will have a flash back to bush foreign policy. he has a big problem with many muslims and all of the hearings he held that were slammed by folks across the spectrum. and, again, i think the party is moving in this libertarian direction with folks like ted cruz from texas, rand paul who want to see a smaller role for america, a smaller foreign policy. kind of in rea...

Mile and a half tunnels takes a long time. >> this is a linear project. you must do the tunnels before you do this. >> and highly specialized laborers are the ones doing nat. sand hogs or earning miners work alongside operating engineers who drive and maintain the machi machinery. >> on average we pay about $1,000 a day. thats base salary plus benefits. >> reporter: its putting people to work in a tough economy. they expect phase one of the subway, three and a half stops and a new tunnel at a fo...

Sub w subway it used the cut and cover meth. boring is much more efficient and disrupts life aboveground a lot less. >> the one that did this is 22-foot in diameter. it can go about 50 foot a day. >> reporter: it it costs $12 million and requires 20 people to operate it. at 50 feet a day, boring two tunnels takes a long time. >> this is a linear project. you must do the tunnels before you do this. >> reporter: and highly specialized laborers are the ones doing that. urban miners work alongside o...

do believe right now is him but they are waiting for fingerprint tests to come back and confirm it. this man himself says he is the suspect. he says he is luca magnata. he was caught in an internet cafe and there were reports that they had seen activity on his account. he still had his own personal mobile phone. they figured this gi sooner or later would give himself up in a sense. because he want doing a good job of trying to cover his tracks. >> lets bring viewers back it last week w...