Hoeven developed legislation that would see Congress grant TransCanada a permit for the project, and filed the bill as an amendment to the highway funding package.
In Vermont, the Department of Tourism and Marketing is promoting "haunted highways" lodging packages, like one at the Green Mountain Inn in Stowe, where rates begin at $96 a night based on double occupancy, through Nov. 30.
"The person who races down the highway and gets the package to Federal Express at the last minute becomes the hero," she said.
That spending is on top of a $3.8 billion package of highway and mass transit projects the state plans to pay for with its own funds, borrowed money and federal aid.
In a drive along our well-worn highway we've got package stores, charbroiled fast food straight out of the 1950's, and some of the earliest shopping centers and, of course, malls from the chic to the utilitarian.
But if you look at the broader picture of transportation in general, Colorado gets less than a dollar for every dollar of tax dollars it sends in for the package of highway systems.
To the casual observer seeing him step out of his car to buy a bottle at a package store on Highway 3, it must have been hard to believe that such a man had ever been anything but soft and sad and drunk.
WASHINGTON — After being derided as a "do-nothing" Congress, the House and Senate moved Friday toward passage of a massive legislative package that overhauls highway and transit programs, salvages an estimated 3 million jobs and spares millions of students from higher interest rates on college loans.
The entrees are pushed into small cardboard boxes, then trucked from the processing plant to Ameriqual's packaging plant down Highway 41 to be packed into the bigger pouches with snacks and side dishes.
Although it is weighted toward bridge-building and highway-paving initiatives, the $586 billion stimulus package announced by the government last month includes a range of incentives intended to get Mr. Dang and his tightfisted brethren to unstuff their proverbial mattresses.
