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State officials have completed the sale of $601 million in bonds for Gov. Chet Culver’s I-JOBS infrastructure program, with the end result saving Iowa nearly $12 million a year.

The state’s Transportation Commission, an arm of the Department of Transportation, approved $50 million to repair 55 bridges across the state at their monthly meeting Tuesday.
The money is part of Gov. Chet Culver’s I-JOBS infrastructure improvement plan. The $830 million bonding program establishes the Bridge Safety Fund, administered by the Department of Transportation, and allocates [...]

The first $45.5 million in grants associated with Gov. Chet Culver’s I-JOBS infrastructure plan were handed out Monday morning by the program’s governing board.
The money, part of the $830 million program designed to help the state rebuild after last year’s tornado and flooding disaster, includes $20 million for projects in Cedar Rapids, one of the [...]

The Web site state officials say will allow Iowans to track how every penny of Gov. Chet Culver’s $830 million bonding plan is spent has been launched.
The site, ijobsiowa.gov, will be the official home of information about the I-JOBS infrastructure improvement program. In an interview with the Iowa Independent earlier this month, Phil Roeder, Culver’s [...]

More than half of the nearly $445 million headed to Iowa as part of the federal stimulus package has been assigned to projects, according to a report issued by the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

Members of the legislative leadership are sounding a familiar refrain: They have made it clear they would like to get out of town this week. But with a long list of bills still sitting unresolved, and with a presidential visit coming up soon, adjourning early could prove difficult.

Gov. Chet Culver has released the details of his proposed $750 million bonding plan, called I-JOBS.

A visibly frustrated Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal, D-Council Bluffs, Wednesday night called Republican opposition to a $175 million bonding plan “unbelievable,” saying the party is simply engaging in obstructionism.

Allowing a proposed increase to the state’s fuel tax to come to the floor of either chamber of the legislature would be a huge mistake, Gov. Chet Culver said Monday.

A face-off is brewing over an increase to Iowa’s fuel tax, but the divide is not breaking down along typical partisan lines.