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Boston post office closures: Allston, Dorchester and beyondMayor Michelle Wu threatened legal action if the Allston post office, closed since 2019, is not restored.

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Michigan Senate passes bill honoring Flint’s lost St. John Street neighborhoodThe proposed St. John Street Community Memorial Highway would begin at Hamilton Avenue and continue a quarter mile north of Stewart Avenue.

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AI companies, coalition of unions push data center guardrails in adThe ad from the American Infrastructure Alliance will air as Iowa lawmakers are likely to consider data center regulations next year.

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Trump names national intelligence director Jay Clayton to lead a new federal AI task forcePresident Donald Trump has tapped his director of national intelligence, Jay Clayton, to lead a new government task force on artificial intelligence. Trump is calling it the “Super Intelligence Force” because he's tried to rebrand AI as “super intelligence.” The announcement Sunday comes after Trump hosted top executives of AI companies at the White…

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A Black Community in Louisiana Faces a Future Without a Champion in Congress After RedistrictingSCOTLANDVILLE, La. (AP) — If you cross the Mississippi River on the Huey P. Long-O.K. Allen Bridge, pass the Exxon Refinery, then head north for a few minutes, you'll find a pocket of Louisiana that's unlike any other place in America's never-ending battle over what it means to have equal representation.

U.S. News & World Report2d agoWhole story →

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FCC considering changes, possibly ending, program that offers discounted internet to schools, librariesA federal program that has paid out billions of dollars to local schools and libraries to offset the cost of internet service is in danger of being curtailed or even eliminated, leaving district administrators and library officials concerned about how they would bridge the financial gap. The E-Rate program, overseen

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Gavin Newsom vetoes bill giving high-speed rail watchdog more powerGavin Newsom rejected a bill that would have given the watchdog of California’s high-speed rail project the powers it says it needs to provide expert oversight.

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'Historic Victory': Judge Blocks Trump's Big Bend Border Construction—For NowA federal judge in El Paso on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from continuing construction of border barriers, roads, and other infrastructure across the Big Bend region, a win for environmentalists, landowners, and other Texans from across the political spectrum who are united in their opposition to the project. US District Judge…

Common Dreams4d agoWhole story →

Long-Awaited Senate Deal to Speed Permitting Faces Familiar HurdlesThe so-called “lame duck” session of Congress after November’s midterm elections could be momentous for clean energy as lawmakers are set to consider a long-sought bipartisan deal to speed permitting of large energy and infrastructure projects. Clean energy advocates and policy experts view the bill as a rare opportunity to deal with a major clean […]

Inside Climate News4d agoWhole story →

Gov. Newsom climbs Golden Gate Bridge to sign his final billGov. Gavin Newsom of California scrambled up a bridge cable before signing a bill at the top of the south tower.

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Senate reaches bipartisan deal on permitting bill to speed approvals of new energy projectsSenators from both parties are saying they have reached a bipartisan deal on legislation aimed at speeding up permitting reviews for new energy and infrastructure projects that now face yearslong delays as lawmakers seek to meet growing demand for electricity and other forms of energy. Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, chair of the…

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution6d agoWhole story →

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Senators clinch construction permitting reform deal before electionA legislative deal to ease construction permitting sets up potential action in Congress when lawmakers return after the November election.

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Katie Britt’s ‘ability to bridge divides’ lands on her ‘most influential rising stars’ listBritt was the youngest Republican woman ever elected to the Senate in 2022.

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Schumer, Senate Democrats block bill to address AI data center costsThe US Senate on Wednesday blocked legislation requiring state utility regulators to consider whether large electricity users, including data centers, should bear the incremental costs of power infrastructure built to serve them and thus ease the burden on households.

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Inside the eight-figure plan to build data centers despite moratoriumsAcross the country, ordinary citizens are telling the data center industry a resounding NO, and the industry has answered with a war chest of its own. OpenAI, Blackstone, SoftBank and QTS have joined major construction unions to form the American Infrastructure Alliance. This “high eight-figure campaign” is designed to steer lawmakers away from…

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Officials: War Secretary Hegseth Signs Order on Election SecuritySecretary of War Pete Hegseth signed an order on Monday, Sept. 28, directing the Department of War (DoW) to coordinate with federal and state agencies on election infrastructure protection, according to officials cited by Axios. The order assigns U.S. Cyber Command and the War Department’s combat support agencies to focus intelligence and cyber tools on…

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Illinois governor’s race: Candidates talk data center costs, infrastructureWhat do Nov. 3 election candidates for the Illinois governor's office think about data centers? Incumbent Gov. JB Pritzker and challengers Darren Bailey and Collin Corbett talk costs, infrastructure

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Who will speak at Trump’s Alabama rally? ‘It’ll be a big day for Mobile’The same day, federal officials are expected to celebrate the groundbreaking of Mobile’s new $4 billion bridge.

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AI needs $6tn a year by 2031 to pay for its data centres, Bain says'The economics of AI infrastructure demand trillions in new revenue,' says Bain's David Crawford, putting the bill at $6tn a year by 2031.

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Gateway boondoggle costs billions, adding no trainsThe politicians from both sides of the river were cheering yesterday that the custom-built tunnel boring machine (TBM) for the Gateway rail tunnel under the Hudson is getting started, but despite blowing $16 billion in federal funds, commuters will get nothing from it when it's done in 10 years or so. The pols are only looking at their next election, not…

New York Daily News7d agoWhole story →

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