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National Governors Association on Infrastructure: Overview: The Nation’s Infrastructure Policy

BLUEPRINT AMERICA :: February 23rd, 2009
National Governors Association on Infrastructure: Overview: The Nation’s Infrastructure Policy

The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, in partnership with Blueprint America and MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, hosts a conversation at the National Governors Association Winter Meeting in Washington, DC with Gov. Ed Rendell and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Team of Rivals – Obama’s Republican Transportation Secretary

THE DIG :: December 19th, 2008
Team of Rivals – Obama’s Republican Transportation Secretary

President-elect Barack Obama is set to announce Rep. Ray LaHood, Republican of Illinois, as his choice for transportation secretary. The moderate-Republican will be nominated to lead a department that will oversee much of the vast public works programs proposed by the President-elect intended to stimulate the economy.

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51st State Infrastructure: Video Archive: New York City transportation continued (1975)

NEW YORK VOICES :: December 12th, 2008
51st State Infrastructure: Video Archive: New York City transportation continued (1975)

This series of 51st State reports, which originally aired in 1975 on Channel Thirteen in New York, looks at transportation in New York City.

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America in Gridlock: Video: America in Gridlock Discussion

THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER :: October 27th, 2008
America in Gridlock: Video: America in Gridlock Discussion

The NewsHour’s Ray Suarez talks with Chris Edwards, the director of fiscal policy at the CATO Institute, and Michael Gallis, an urban development consultant, on the future of America’s infrastructure.

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America in Gridlock: Overview

THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER :: October 15th, 2008
America in Gridlock: Overview

The breakdown of the levees in New Orleans and the collapse of the bridge in Minneapolis are well known, but America’s infrastructure problems do not end in Louisiana and Minnesota. NewsHour Senior Correspondent Ray Suarez travels to each region of the country for a five part series focusing not only on the neglect and underfunding of the country's decaying infrastructure, but also on solutions for and new thinking about these pervasive problems.

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America in Gridlock: Video: Flying Blind

The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer :: October 15th, 2008
America in Gridlock: Video: Flying Blind

A look at how America’s air transportation system – once a source of national pride – has become a frustrating example of the country’s struggling infrastructure. In the fourth segment of a five part series on infrastructure in the U.S., NewsHour Senior Correspondent Ray Suarez reports with Blueprint America on the crowded skies above.

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