July 26, 2024 – One of our nation’s executives possessed a uniquely strong claim to the canal: the waterway played a key role in the inspirational, tragic life of James Garfield, our twentieth president.
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July 19, 2024 – The Federal Transit Administration gave out $1.5 billion in bus grants last week, four-fifths of which went to zero-emission or low-emission bus projects.
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July 19, 2024 – After serving as a major general for the Union Army, a member of Congress, and governor of Ohio – Rutherford B. Hayes accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for president in 1876, promising to serve only one term if elected.
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July 19, 2024 – The quadrennial policy platforms of the two major U.S. political party are now on the books, with the Republican Platform having been approved by the national convention earlier this week and the draft Democratic Platform having been almost unanimously approved by the Platform Committee July 16.
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July 12, 2024 – The House version of the fiscal 2025 DOT Appropriations Act indefinitely postpones funding for several New Start mass transit projects.
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July 12, 2024 – On March 26, the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which spanned the Patapsco River in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsed after the Dali, a 984-ft container ship leaving the Port of Baltimore, lost power and struck its southern pier.
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