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Tobin Tells Story About America’s Infrastructure to Spark Federal Investment

By Debra Zimmerman Murphey

Infrastructure is currently the priority on the national policy agenda, and an initiative we are working on helped make that happen. To elevate the dialogue in and beyond the beltway, Tobin Communications, Inc. (TCI) crafts credible original content to transcend today’s hyperbolic echo chambers.

Driving awareness and heightening buy-in are among our objectives for our client, the Americans for Transportation Mobility (ATM) Coalition. We are sharing this ATM video ad that is still resonating within and outside the centrifuge of D.C.

America’s infrastructure needs modernization. Roads, bridges and public transit are built, expanded and maintained due to local, state and private-sector dollars, but also through crucial federal gas tax revenue that goes into the Highway Trust Fund (HTF). That gas tax, however, has not been raised since 1993 and the HTF is fiscally challenged. As some people know, federal lawmakers are focused on surface transportation reauthorization, but also reimagining what American infrastructure is, to help spur job and economic growth and get a long-term package done.

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I Interviewed George Shultz in 2010 — His Words Remind Us that America’s Best Days Are Always Ahead

By Maury Tobin

The world lost a great statesman on Saturday. But the death of centenarian and Republican George Shultz also evokes much more.

In 2010, while working on a project regarding Republicans advocating for environmental protection, I had the opportunity to interview Secretary Shultz by phone while he was in his Stanford University office. We spoke about the idea that environmental stewardship and conservatism should not be strange bedfellows.

You can listen to a piece of the podcast by clicking here.

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