Caitlin Devitt has covered the municipal bond market since 2008. She began her journalism career at the Herald Newspapers on the South Side of Chicago, starting as a reporter and rising to Managing Editor. While at The Bond Buyer, she covered the Detroit bankruptcy among other Midwest-based stories. Devitt joined Debtwire Municipals in 2016, where she covered the high-yield municipal bond market for five years, before returning to the Bond Buyer as Senior Infrastructure Reporter. She lives in Chicago with her family.
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The December 2020 supplemental aid package provided $9.8 billion directly to state departments of transportation, the only direct stimulus that DOTs received.
May 24 -
The latest Congressional effort challenging the state and local tax deduction cap would stop the IRS from restricting state legislation that offsets the policy.
May 23 -
The temporary injunction halts all work on Pennsylvania's $2.2 billion Major Bridges program.
May 20 -
Some worry that governments will use new infrastructure funds for generic, shovel-ready projects, or even tax cuts, instead of collaborative plans that could transform regions.
May 19 -
The bulk of the first tranches of the $15 billion of IIJA funds will likely be used to figure out where lead lines are located, so states and water systems can determine the scope of the problem.
May 19 -
California has received the most, at $9.7 billion, followed by New York. Transportation is the top spending category nationally followed by climate, energy and environment.
May 17 -
Rising construction costs coupled with the Great Resignation means New Orleans is receiving fewer bids on its RFPs, Mayor LaToya Cantrell said.
May 16 -
Toll roads could see a negative impact if elevated fuel prices linger for three years or longer, but mass transit would benefit, says S&P Global Ratings in a report.
May 13 -
Affluent, urban communities enjoy a natural edge when it comes to competing with their less-resourced rural peers for the new infrastructure funds.
May 12 -
Referring to the $105 billion California high-speed rail plan, transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the administration continues “to want that project, as we want any project, to succeed.”
May 11