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1. Rhode Island Share of major roadways in poor condition: 38.8% Share of major roadways in fair condition: 37.1% Share of major roadways in good condition: 24.0% Daily vehicle-miles traveled per capita: 17.8 2. New Jersey Share of major roadways in poor condition: 36.4% Share of major roadways in fair condition: 31.1% Share of major roadways in good condition: 32.5% Daily vehicle-miles traveled per capita: 20.5 3. California Share of major roadways in poor condition: 30.8% Share of major roadways in fair condition: 32.9% Share of major roadways in good condition: 36.3% Daily vehicle-miles traveled per capita: 20.9

Compass Coffee’s business plummeted at the start of the pandemic. Rather than lay everyone off, the company turned its baristas into construction workers.Inside a new and nearly finished coffee roasting facility in Washington D.C., Joel Shetterly is animatedly leading a video tour through the building. As head of design for Compass Coffee, a seven-year-old company with 13 cafe locations and tinned beans in stores across the D.C. region, Shetterly is eager to show off the 65,000 square foot building’s new roasters, packaging equipment, and lots of welded steel. He’s excited about how the largely automated new space works, and also...

Britain could be linked with America by road as part of an ambitious project to create the world's longest superhighway spanning half the circumference of the globe. Proposals have been put forward to build the mega route stretching about 12,400 miles from the western edge of Russia to the Bering Strait where the country nudges Alaska.

Story by U.S. Air Force Capt. Tony Wickman KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – The Kunar Construction Center in the Shigal district held a graduation ceremony and job fair for 100 local Afghans trained in carpentry, masonry, painting, plumbing and electrical wiring, Jan.31. Ted Wittenberger, U.S. Agency for International Development representative for Kunar province, Fazlullah Wahidi, Kunar provincial governor, most of the Kunar district sub-governors, area tribal elders and the Kunar Provincial Reconstruction Team members attended the graduation. In his remarks to the crowd, Wittenberger said that since the opening of KCC, nearly 700 young men have graduated and found work...

Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) 0n February 6, denounced an Executive Order signed by President Obama that repeals Executive Order 13202, that prohibited federal agencies and recipients of federal funding from requiring contractors to sign union-only project labor agreements (PLAs) as a condition of performing work on federal and federally funded construction projects. “Today’s decision to repeal Executive Order 13202 opens the door to waste and discrimination in federal and federally funded construction contracts,” said ABC President and CEO Kirk Pickerel. “This action removes the safeguards that prohibited discrimination based upon union affiliation in the awarding of federal contracts.

BAGHDAD, July 23, 2008 – Water is a critical resource in the desert, and the water level at Camp Victory here has decreased significantly over the past few months, the result of an unseasonably dry winter that saw very little rain. Water from the Jaddriyah Pump Station is pumped into the Al Faw Lake on Camp Victory, Iraq. The water is used by personnel on the Victory Base Complex as well as the Iraqi people who live outside of the installation. U.S. Army photo by Maj. James Daffron, 926th Engineer Brigade  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The water...

Calling for repeal of the state's immigration bill, the senator says its author is a "mad scientist." OKLAHOMA CITY -- Sen. Harry Coates on Thursday called fellow Republican Rep. Randy Terrill, author of Oklahoma's controversial immigration legislation, "a mad scientist and Oklahoma is his laboratory." Coates said Terrill, who has recently proposed even stricter immigration legislation, is getting "wackier and wackier" and his rhetoric has racist overtones. "When you say that mothers who have dark skin should not be able to receive prenatal care, I find that racist," Coates said. Terrill has objected to the state's Medicaid agency approving a...

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