MITA Announces Latest Underground Projects

Today MITA is releasing a list of over 100 upcoming state revolving fund underground projects.  The 2008/2009 Project Priority List comes from the Department of Environmental Quality and forecasts expected work for the next year. To see the most recent State Revolving...

Official Statewide Ballot Language for Voting on Nov. 4

Official Ballot Proposal Language Proposal 1 A LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVE TO PERMIT THE USE AND CULTIVATION OF MARIJUANA FOR SPECIFIED MEDICAL CONDITIONSThe proposed law would: Permit physician approved use of marijuana by registered patients with debilitating medical...

Transportation Budget Stalemate Ended

Senate and Republican legislators voted Wednesday to end the deadlock over the 2009 transportation budget, one week before the beginning of the fiscal year. The legislative agreement broke a logjam and averted a departmental shutdown and closure of MDOT construction...

MITA Readies $1 Billion Transportation Plan for Lame Duck

MITA has been working diligently in recent weeks to prepare state legislators for a mound of work when they return from the fall elections. Because of plummeting state gas tax revenues and the resulting loss of federal matching funds, MITA has been pushing...

U.S. Senate Votes to Save Federal Highway Trust Fund

The Senate approved legislation yesterday to transfer $8 billion to restore solvency to the federal Highway Trust Fund. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters had announced that federal-aid payments to the states would be withheld because of a shortage of funds....