Falling short

State highway departments look for more from SAFETEA-LU
Some state highway officials are unhappy with the amount of money they're seeing from the federal highway funding bill that went into effect last year.

Cool gas

Hackberry, La., plant to supply LNG to new niche
Sempra LNG, a division of Sempra Energy, will complete work on its Cameron Liquefied Natural Gas receiving terminal and storage facility in Hackberry, La., during the third quarter of 2008.

Old habits

Circa 1860 convent expanded, renovated in Nashville
During a $37.5 million expansion, 200-plus Catholic nuns, many of whom had taken vows of solitude, were left with little choice but to bend the rules and allow contractors onto their cloistered Nashville campus.

Desiard Street deconstructed

Monroe street widening project is resequenced midstream
Though long overdue and highly anticipated, a road-widening project in Monroe, La. had to be resquenced in the middle of construction.

Monumental effort

Mississippi 'minimill' is anything but small
As worn as it may sound, the saying "build it and they will come" is alive and well on a 1,440-acre site a few miles west of Columbus, Miss.