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Infrastructure? Who Needs It?

Warning: this is a very disgusting story According to Climate Central, over 10 billion gallons of sewage spewed into waterways and streets during and after Hurricane Sandy. Over 10 billion gallons of raw and partly treated sewage gushed into waterways … Continue reading
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Lesson Learned?

Artist – Pat Bagley In other news, according to The New York Times, our national infrastructure has been upgraded from a grade of D to D+. Hooray? Here’s an old post I made in 2011 about the infrastructure deficit which … Continue reading
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The Nation’s First High-Speed Rail Line

Good news — someone is moving forward in this country even if our Tea Party overlords in congress and Republican state legislatures say otherwise. California lawmakers have approved billions of dollars in construction financing for the first segment of what … Continue reading

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Chris Christie is a Lying Liar

Shortly after taking office New Jersey Governor Chris Christie canceled a tunnel project, which was the largest public works project in the nation, that would connect New Jersey and New York and relieve congestion on other routes. Christie’s rationale for … Continue reading

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Privatizing Our Infrastructure is Bad

Brad Plumer at Ezra Klein’s place covers the upsides and downsides of leasing or selling off our roads and bridges to private corporations. The main problem here isn’t just that transportation infrastructure is being privatized. The problem is that it’s … Continue reading

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Unless It Benefits The Working Class

Artist – Mike Keefe In other news, House Majority Shitkicker Eric Cantor threw cold water on the president’s proposal for a national infrastructure bank today by comparing it to a “Fannie and Freddie of roads and bridges,” and Senator Lindsey … Continue reading

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Moving On Post Deficit-Hysteria

President Obama spoke to the press at the rose garden today to announce his signing of the Budget Control Act (the debt-ceiling bill) and to offer a glimpse of what he plans to focus on next. So, we’ve seen in … Continue reading

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Worse Than We Thought

According to a new report from the Economics for Equity and the Environment Network, the estimated cost to society per ton of CO2 released into the atmosphere may be 45 times higher than previously estimated by the federal government. The … Continue reading

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Wanted: Sign Maker

I agree with John Cole. This is an outstanding idea: how about some dem signage outside the clocked NJ tunnels and bridges reminding folks: Traffic Jam Courtesy Gov. Christie. As someone who’s spent way too many hours of his life … Continue reading

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Conservative Governing by Default

I’m going over and over the new stimulus proposal, and for the life of me, I can’t figure out how it will pass. Maybe it’s not supposed to. The tax cuts could be a trap, daring the Republicans to vote … Continue reading

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