On March 14, 2012, the U.S. Senate passed Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21 st Century (MAP-21), its 1.5-year transportation reauthorization bill, by a vote of 74 to 22.  The final bill contains manager’s amendments and an additional nine amendments approved by the Senate in March 2012.  The list of amendments and list of roll call votes are available on-line, and the full... Read More

On Wednesday, March 21, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21 st Century (MAP-21) in a procedural vote.  House Democrats had attached MAP-21, the U.S. Senate’s 1.5-year transportation reauthorization bill, to unrelated legislation.  On Thursday, March 22, 2012, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica... Read More

NOTE:   This is the sixth in a six-part series of Policy Updates on the OECD Territorial Review: Part 1: Assets and Challenges Part 2: Workforce Part 3: Innovation Part 4: Transportation and Logistics Part 5: Green Growth Part 6: Governance The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently profiled a broader Chicago... Read More

At the time GO TO 2040 was published, roughly 250,000 acres of land in the region had been set aside for conservation purposes, with another 50,000 acres primarily for recreation . While the majority is held by public agencies, the fastest growing slice of the pie, at least in percentage terms, has been private conservation. GO TO 2040 noted the critical need to support the work of private... Read More

NOTE:   This is the fifth in a six-part series of Policy Updates on the OECD Territorial Review: Part 1: Assets and Challenges Part 2: Workforce Part 3: Innovation Part 4: Transportation and Logistics Part 5: Green Growth Part 6: Governance The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently profiled a broader Chicago... Read More