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Associated PressDecember 21, 2015

More than 38 million passengers passed through Orlando International Airport in the past year, making it the busiest year ever for the airport. Airport officials said Thursday that 33 million domestic passengers and 5 million international passengers passed through the airport from October 2014 to October 2015. Domestic traffic was up 6 percent and international […]

Associated PressNovember 29, 2015

Hillary Rodham Clinton called for hundreds of billions in new federal spending on infrastructure on Sunday, kicking off what her campaign says will be a month-long focus on job creation. Standing before a backdrop of union workers and students, the Democratic presidential frontrunner vowed to rebuild “ladders of opportunity” and give a greater number of […]

Associated PressSeptember 27, 2015

With a burgeoning population and aging water systems, Florida will need $16.5 billion in funding over the next 20 years just to maintain its existing drinking water infrastructure, according to estimates from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In most places across the country, the promise of clean, cheap, readily available water has been taken for […]

Marc YachtAugust 26, 2015

Poverty’s narrow definition relates to income and consumption but a much broader meaning is necessary to understand America’s poor. Federal guidelines qualify individuals and families by addressing income, but don’t provide an accurate depiction of needy families and their living conditions. The better understanding of the poor must look beyond income and at the larger […]

Guest AuthorApril 22, 2015

For more than five decades, local governments and utility companies have had a very good arrangement that works well for everyone. When a private utility needs to run such things as transmission or cable lines, the utility enters into an agreement with a local government and this agreement allows the privately-owned infrastructure to be placed […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 3, 2015

This morning, I’ll be going on WJCT radio in Jacksonville on the show of my FloridaPolitics.com colleague Melissa Ross to talk about the collapse of a section of Liberty Street here in downtown Jacksonville. It’s an interesting news item for a number of reasons. For one, it’s a prominent local street. For another, it comes […]

Shannon NickinsonDecember 16, 2014

Pensacola is an old city. And as we learned in the April flooding, our infrastructure on the ground has all of the flaws that the streets, sewers and storm drains of a community our size and age has. But as the city and county fathers (and mothers) pursue money from the tax rolls, federal grants […]

Shannon NickinsonOctober 23, 2014

Santa Rosa County voters first had the chance to fund construction of a new courthouse in 2002. That measure failed, but the need to replace the nearly 90-year-old facility in downtown Milton, about 25 miles from Pensacola in the Florida Panhandle, has only grown in the intervening 12 years. And if it fails again on […]

Guest AuthorMay 19, 2014

Many of the goods we use every day — from car parts to computers, to the clothes we wear and the meals we eat — must first pass through one or more of the nation’s seaports. Closer to home, every resident and visitor in West and Central Florida will use some product that has been […]

Tag: Infrastructure
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Orlando International Airport has busiest year ever

Hillary Clinton proposes $275 billion in new infrastructure spending

Florida uses EPA water system grants to gird infrastructure

Dr. Marc J. Yacht: Our country’s shameful legacy of poverty

Sam Ferreri: 'Severe negative fiscal impact' of utilities changes = tax increase

Liberty collapses in Jacksonville

Shannon Nickinson: Pensacola slow to prepare for the wireless world

Shannon Nickinson: Our infrastructure is expensive and mostly invisible until it breaks

A. Paul Anderson: Governments must build infrastructure so ports can prosper