A 40-year employee is the new Missouri Department of Transportation director. Alisa Nelson sits down with Ed Hassinger (like a singer in a band), who has held a variety of jobs there, including engineer, and structural designer, and was even a member of MoDOT’s dive...
A project to rebuild an 8-mile stretch of eastbound Interstate 44 in central Missouri from Rolla to St. James has hit a roadblock. Quality control issues were found with newly poured concrete there. According to Acting MoDOT Director Ed Hassinger, the errors need to...
With the 2023 State budget approving a massive expansion to I-70, many lawmakers got to work to address I-44’s need for further development. State Representative Don Mayhew joins Marshall Griffin to discuss the attention I-44 has received in the 2024 legislative...
Missouri’s nearly $51 billion state budget proposal is under consideration in the Senate. The spending proposal would widen I-44 to six lanes in Springfield, Joplin, and Rolla. It also includes a 3.2% pay increase for state workers and it would boost funding for...
One member of the Missouri House hopes the Senate takes efforts to improve Interstate 44 seriously. A small section of Missouri’s longest interstate runs though the district of State Rep. Don Mayhew, R-Crocker. He said that stretch of I-44 has some critical needs....
