The annual meeting of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials will take place in St. Louis October 5-9 and registration remains open.
The meeting will feature a range of sessions touching on everything from how to support infrastructure deployments in support of automated transportation initiatives to the use of new financing and procurement processes for funding transportation projects.
Invited speakers for AASHTO’s 2019 annual meeting include Missouri Governor Mike Parsons (R) and U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.
The 12th annual America’s Transportation Awards will also be presented at the organization’s annual meeting as well.
[The winners of the 2018 America’s Transportation Awards contest can be viewed in the video below.]
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Today is the last day of Native American Heritage Month. We're closing out the month honoring John Beargrease, Rural Mail Carrier.
John Beargrease, who was also known as Eshquabi, was born in the vicinity of Minnesota’s North Shore of Lake Superior in 1858. He was the son of Moquabimetem, a chief of the Ojibwe people in that region. (The Ojibwe people are part of the group of Native American tribes collectively called the Anishinaabe.) Moquabimetem also went by the name John Beargrease the Elder. By the 1870s, this family had settled with other members of the Ojibwe tribe in the Minnesota community of Beaver Bay on the North Shore. In 1879, John Beargrease the Younger first took on the pivotal role of transporting mail in the general area where they lived.
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