Richard Korman

Milwaukee County, Wis., basically decided “we have a problem” when it came to road and traffic safety. Fatal and serious automobile accident rates that had been declining since 1994 stalled around 2010 and had been on the rise since about 2014. County data showed that the crashes were concentrated in the city of Milwaukee. That's what made the federal government's recently announced award of $25 million under the federal Safe Streets and Roads for All program such welcome news. What could be more important? Not much.

It didn't even take until Election Day for Donald Trump and his designated border czar, Tom Homan, the acting chief of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the president elect's first administration, to try to redefine the planned mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. What Trump promised in his campaign would be the greatest deportation in American history was already being recast as a rational and controlled process. Deporting people will be the

Revenue and profit fell for several of construction's biggest companies, according to numbers posted for the third quarter of 2024, but there was also optimism that fast-developing market sectors will become financial springboards that add to future results.

Due to the pressing concerns of climate change and its impact on infrastructure design, civil engineering needs a significant update.