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...
State Sen. Cindy O’Laughlin, R-Shelbina, is voicing displeasure after the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission (MHTC) unanimously chose Ed Hassinger to be the new director for the Missouri Department of Transportation. “We have bureaucrats running...
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...
The Missouri Department of Transportation’s road construction season is kicking into high gear. Ed Hassinger, MoDOT’s deputy director, said Missouri is prepping for one of its busiest road construction seasons in the history of the department. He said the agency has...