Tucker Reed, who worked on reconstruction projects in Iraq and since 2011 has been the president of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, is stepping down.
The following tax-exempt, fixed-income issues are scheduled for pricing this week.
Gov. Chris Christie ordered the work stoppage, which affects projects across the state, after lawmakers failed to agree on a gas-tax increase.
Transit officials found cracks in more than a hundred new rail cars, pulling them out of service only weeks before the Democratic National Convention.
A disagreement between Gov. Chris Christie and state lawmakers delayed a rise of 23 cents a gallon, forcing the state to plan a shutdown of nonessential road projects.
Gov. Chris Christie issued an executive order late Thursday declaring a state of emergency after negotiations to raise the state’s famously low gas tax stalled.
The State Senate declined to sign on to the Assembly’s plan, backed by Gov. Chris Christie, to raise the gas tax and lower the sales tax.
Examination of the city-level infrastructure data from Census databases reveals that improvements in both social and physical infrastructure parameters have occurred in class-I cities of West Bengal but not in economic infrastructure aspects while access to basic amenities and assets has improved only slightly at the household level. However, cities situated in the lowermost infrastructural development categories dominate the urban scene in this state.
The census 2011 based information on basic amenities offers an opportunity to assess India’s progress towards access to toilet facility, the first step to end the open defecation, with a decade long Total Sanitation Campaign underway. Evaluating the data of census 2001 and 2011, it turns out that progress in this sphere is slow and non-inclusive. It entirely excludes poorest states with high incidence of toilet deprivation.
In pursuit of achieving and maintaining high human development, infrastructure is said to play a critical role. The present paper examines the spatial disparities in infrastructural facilities and human development across 30 districts of Odisha, and consequently, tries to find out the impact of infrastructure on human development in the state. The study records significant regional disparities in the level of human development as well as infrastructural development in Odisha.
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