Infastructure

Amid cranes and heavy trucks, new buildings are sprouting up along the west side of Ohio State’s campus. It’s part of new innovation district meant to spur jobs in the STEM field.

After lots of back and forth, Ohio’s Republican U.S. Senator said he thinks the bipartisan infrastructure deal he’s been working on with President Biden’s administration will happen.

Despite the failed vote, a broad group of senators said they "are close to a final agreement."

Ohio Senator Rob Portman, who helped negotiate a nearly trillion-dollar bipartisan infrastructure bill, said a proposal to strengthen IRS enforcement to raise money to help pay for the bill's spending is officially off the table.

Members from the U.S. Conference of Mayors met in Columbus Tuesday to discuss the future of the organization, including the support of the federal bipartisan infrastructure plan.

Lancaster Mayor David Scheffler joined others from the Ohio Mayors Alliance pushing congress to pass a federal infrastructure plan revealed last week.

But the president cautioned that the bipartisan deal wouldn't be enacted without a separate proposal moving along with just Democratic support.

In Cleveland, President Joe Biden on Thursday argued for increased spending on infrastructure, research and education to lift the U.S. economy as the country recovers from the coronavirus pandemic.

President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan includes an $80 billion investment in passenger rail. Amtrak has announced one of the projects from that investment would be another crack at creating a train system that goes from Cincinnati to Cleveland.

President Biden unveiled his $2 trillion infrastructure plan in March, declaring it “a once-in-a-generation investment in America.” We take a look at how lessons from those once-in-a-generation projects inform policymakers today.