07 Dec Rep. Rosa DeLauro to Lead Funding Committee in 117th Congress The powerful Appropriations Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives will be led during the next session of Congress by Connecticut Democrat Rosa DeLauro, her caucus announced this month. Read more...
07 Dec Luminar Technologies More Than Doubles Post SPAC Merger Peter Thiel-backed Luminar Technologies Inc. briefly touched an all-time high within days of emerging as a stand-alone company as investor excitement over developers of laser sensors that enable autonomous driving ramped up. Read more...
07 Dec Crossword Puzzle Solution for December 7, 2020 Here's the solution to the crossword puzzle found in December 7, 2020 print edition. Read more...
07 Dec Arkansas’ Mobile Job Simulator Promotes Industry Be Pro, Be Proud, a workforce development initiative, puts students behind the wheel of a truck driving simulator inside a tractor-trailer. Read more...
07 Dec Majority of Business Economists Now See Full Recovery by End of 2021, Survey Says The U.S. economy’s growth is likely slowing as 2020 comes to a close, but a growing number of economists expect it to claw back to its pre-pandemic strength by the second half of next year as vaccines for the coronavirus become widely distributed. Read more...
07 Dec Pelosi, McConnell Negotiate COVID-19 Relief with Transportation Aid Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) recently suggested her team is negotiating with her Senate counterparts on potentially advancing a pandemic measure as early as this month, and transportation would be included. Here's your Capitol Agenda look at the week ahead for trucking on Capitol Hill. Read more...
07 Dec Missouri Lawmakers May Ask Voters to Raise Gas Tax in 2021 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Two years after Missouri voters decisively rejected a proposal to raise Missouri’s gasoline tax, the leader of the Senate wants a do-over. Read more...
07 Dec Details of $908 Billion US Pandemic Relief Plan Set for Release Bipartisan negotiators on a $908 billion pandemic relief package are planning to unveil more details of their proposal Dec. 7, aiming to settle on language that can satisfy enough Republicans and Democrats to secure passage of one final tranche of COVID-19 aid before Congress breaks for the year. Read more...
07 Dec Oil Slips From Nine-Month High With Markets in Risk-Off Mode Oil fell from its strongest close in nine months, hampered by weaker risk sentiment in global markets. Read more...
04 Dec Truckers Confront Risk Factors for Diabetes About nine years ago, California-based longhaul truck driver Richard Hall was in for a big surprise when he got his first Department of Transportation medical exam. Read more...