by admin | Apr 27, 2009 | Transportation
California, Missouri is where a joint project between The Missouri Department of Transportation, Union Pacific and Amtrack begins to improve passenger rail service. Brian Weiler, multimodal operations director for MoDOT says this is the first of several projects to...
by admin | Mar 19, 2009 | Transportation
Missouri is ready to spend hundreds of millions of federal money on roads and bridges. Missouri Department of Transportation Chief Engineer Kevin Keith outlined an $833 million spending plan to the State Transportation Commission meeting in Springfield. "With...
by admin | Mar 4, 2009 | Politics / Govt, Transportation
The Department of Transportation has mapped out 32 projects the federal economic stimulus package will pay for. The projects total nearly $39 dollars and will support about a thousand jobs. MoDOT Director Pete Rahn says most of the work involves laying asphalt to make...
by admin | Feb 18, 2009 | Politics / Govt
No hard numbers yet, but Governor Nixon has outlined his vision for how money flowing to Missouri from the federal economic stimulus package should be spent. Nixon calls his vision for spending the stimulus money the Transform Missouri Initiative. He unveiled it...
by admin | Feb 17, 2009 | Politics / Govt
Governor Nixon said today that Missouri must be ready to use an economic development tool made available to the state by Congress. Nixon spoke with Capitol reporters after addressing the Missouri School Boards Association meeting at the Capital Plaza Hotel in...