Every hour that one of The Advance Group's trucks is stuck in highway or bridge traffic, it costs the moving company around $200. And with 40 trucks trying to get into Manhattan daily and contending with the New York metro area's deteriorating public property, the price of lost time runs up quickly.

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President Donald Trump and Democratic congressional leaders agreed Tuesday to work together on a $2 trillion infrastructure package — but put off for later the difficult question of how to pay for it.

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The Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar is pitching an infrastructure plan she says will provide $1 trillion to repair roads and bridges, provide protections against flooding and rebuild schools, airports and other property.

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President Donald Trump pronounced himself eager to work with Congress on a plan to rebuild America's crumbling roads and bridges, but offered no specifics during his State of the Union speech on what kind of deal he would back. The question now is whether lawmakers and the president are finally ready to move beyond complaining about the nation's infrastructure and actually do something about it.

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A blast of polar air enveloped much of the Midwest on Wednesday, cracking train rails, breaking water pipes and straining electrical systems. But in Wisconsin’s two largest cities, city officials were saying the cold snap hadn’t caused as much damage to infrastructure as had the previous deep freeze five years ago.

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As the new year begins, Congress should place a high priority on the enactment of a 10-year, $1 trillion national infrastructure act.

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Democratic leaders in Congress demanded last week that major legislation on roads, bridges and other infrastructure include policies meant to curb global warming, complicating prospects for a deal with President Donald Trump on a jobs-boosting bill that both parties have deemed a priority.

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Cleaning up contaminated drinking water and smoothing deteriorating roads will top the agenda for Michigan Gov.-elect Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat who said this week she hopes to find bipartisan consensus with the GOP-controlled Legislature.

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President Donald Trump signed a wide-ranging bill this week meant to improve the country's water infrastructure.

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Milwaukee County faces a "seemingly insurmountable" logjam of repairs to its park and recreation facilities under its current regime of limited borrowing, a new Wisconsin Policy Forum report finds.

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