Earlier this week, President Joe Biden signed a historic $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law. First up today, Wednesday host Carousel Bayrd takes a close look at the history of the infrastructure bill and how it made its way through Congress with UW–Madison political science professor Eleanor Powell. Then, she talks about what the […]
Bringing High-Speed Internet to Rural Wisconsin
Earlier this month, the Wisconsin Public Service Commission awarded $100 million dollars in federal pandemic relief money to projects expanding fiber broadband access. This comes at an especially crucial time. Work-from-home and virtual schooling have become increasingly common, even as nearly 22 percent of Wisconsin’s rural residents don’t have reliable internet access. Governor Tony Evers […]
Nuclear Power Bailout in the infrastructure bill
The bi-partisan infrastructure bill just passed by the U.S. Senate has allotted $50 billion over the next 10 years to bolster the dying nuclear power industry, according to Hannah Smay, Digital Organizer of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service. And the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill promises even more, fails to create jobs, reduce carbon, and […]
Muttardy: National Infrastructure Bank can pay its way
The Biden infrastructure plan falls $2.5 billion short of what the country needs for the next 10 years to rebuild an infrastructure that has been ignored for the past 60 years: this according to a report of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Alphecca Muttardy from the Coalition for a National Infrastructure Bank talks about […]
The Surfside Condo Collapse and Climate Change in Florida
Yesterday, a demolition team brought down the remaining structure of the collapsed Champlain Towers South building in Surfside, Florida. The death count is now at 27, with 118 people still unaccounted for. Since the devastating building collapse on June 26, engineers, scientists, and policy-makers have been trying to make sense of how this happened—and if […]
Betting on Mass Transit for Economic Recovery
When people are told to stay six feet away from each other to avoid catching a potentially deadly virus, large assemblies are banned and millions of people suddenly start working from home instead of commuting, it’s not surprising that mass transit would become relatively unpopular. In fact, the U.S.’s major transit systems saw an 80% […]
