As Major League Baseball’s regular season winds down like a pitch clock and pennant races wind up like a pitcher, sports team owners, communities and entire states keep taking their best swings at new stadium proposals and deals. Where do you turn to keep up?
Check out the sights from the Ohio and Erie Canalway Towpath Trail and Put-in-Bay to Smale Riverfront Park in Cincinnat and yes, Tom’s Ice Cream Bowl in Zanesville.
Last week the National Science Foundation released new analysis of R&D investment. Among the findings: between 2000 and 2022, the amount of R&D funded by the business sector has more than doubled when measured in constant dollars (figure 4). In 2000, businesses funded $256 billion in domestic R&D, which increased 123% to an estimated $570 billion in 2022.
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Photo courtesy of Ferrovial
Infrastructure giant Ferrovial this summer inaugurated the extension of Porto Metro’s Yellow Line in Porto, Portugal. “The project, with a budget of €99 million, has generated an average of 284 direct jobs during the 36-month construction period,” the company said. “One of the most complex parts of the project was the construction of a viaduct between Santo Ovídio and Manuel Leão stations. The metal latticework structure on piers up to 22 meters high traces a curve 420 meters long.” Due to the difficulty of erecting it with cranes from the ground, the 2,746-ton structure was slid into place from one end. “Its assembly took 143 days of work around the clock, involving 77 people,” said the company, which has been operating in Portugal for over three decades.
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