In the middle of the infrastructure bill negotiations last year in Washington, D.C., with the pandemic still limiting in-person meetings, lobbyist Martin Whitmer Jr. found a creative way to get in front of lawmakers with a message from his client, the asphalt industry.
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The first Covid-19 vaccine shipments in the U.S. were set to leave a manufacturing plant in Michigan on Sunday for delivery on Monday. | Morry Gash/AP Photo via pool
DRIVING THE DAY
SIREN … IT’S HAPPENING! “Trucks with first COVID-19 vaccine in US get ready to roll,”by AP’s Matthew Perrone, Mike Stobbe and Mark Scolforo: “The first trucks carrying a COVID-19 vaccine for widespread use in the United States were set to pull out of a Michigan manufacturing plant Sunday, with the shots that are critical to stopping the nation’s coronavirus outbreak destined to reach states a day later.