House Speaker Shekarchi describes priorities in new $14.3B RI budget House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi describes the priorities in new $14.3B state budget The Rhode Island General Assembly wrapped up its 2025 session on Friday, June 20. An assault weapons ban, payday lending restrictions, and the state’s $14.3 billion budget all were approved. Rhode Island
House Speaker Shekarchi describes priorities in new $14.3B RI budget House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi describes the priorities in new $14.3B state budget The Rhode Island General Assembly wrapped up its 2025 session in the early morning hours of Saturday, June 21. An assault weapons ban, payday lending restrictions, and the state’s $14.3 billion budget
Republicans, however, challenged Biden’s assertion of executive authority over the loan program and won a 2023 Supreme Court ruling that vastly scaled back debt forgiveness. Now, under the Trump-backed budget bill pending before the Senate, the loan program would be simplified and its terms made less generous to borrowers. (The House already passed the bill
A Manhattan federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday blocking the federal government from withholding funding from New York State in the ongoing battle over New York City’s congestion pricing. Judge Lewis Liman ruled early Tuesday afternoon that the order would be in place until 5 p.m. on June 9, and would enjoin the
SAN ANTONIO – Funds for two projects linked to addressing connectivity between downtown San Antonio and the greater East Side remain under federal review, according to a nonprofit and city officials. Earlier this year, San Antonio for Growth on the Eastside (SAGE) received $2 million from the then-U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s
Lucio Vasquez / Houston Public Media A car drives through an electronic tolling facility on the Hardy Toll Road on March 14, 2022. State legislation that would require Harris County to send 30% of its surplus toll road funds to the City of Houston is one step closer to becoming law after passing the Texas
BIG SKY, Mont. — The Montana Department of Transportation and the Big Sky Resort Area District applied for $25 million in federal grant funds to make roadway improvements. The project, known as The Corridor to Big Sky: US 191/MT 64 Intersection Improvements project, is seeking funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Better Utilizing Investments
The Trump administration threatened on Tuesday to withhold federal funding from New York’s mass transit network if the Metropolitan Transportation Authority did not respond to a series of demands about efforts to prevent crime on the city’s subway and buses. Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, said in a letter that the M.T.A. must provide a
The fate of the Bay State’s $8 billion plan to turn the MBTA around and shore up transportation infrastructure depends somewhat on the federal government choosing not to be “foolish” or “dumb” when it comes to allocating federal highway grants, according to the governor. Healey was in Somerville on Thursday to tour the MBTA Boston