Since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, liberals have rarely stood firm on key issues. Part of it is their own timidity; part of it is
Category: Infrastructure
Starving the infrastructure beast: Privatization vs. the American Jobs Act
With 13.1 million Americans waking up every morning with no job to go to, how should we make sense of the three-time Senate “no”
Two world views collide on the highway
On a rainy, cold, foggy night, we’re driving on I-90 from the Albany, NY airport to a town in rural upstate New York. My
How Stimulus One could be working for us now
President Barack Obama’s speech before Congress on September 8 regarding jobs may have been his most effective remarks since his speech on race in
F.A.S.T. stimulus plan: Fix schools, put people back to work
America could put hundreds of thousands of people back to work by implementing a proposed stimulus program called F.A.S.T. The acronym stands for “Fix
Schakowsky’s bill would create 2 million jobs
Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) has proposed a jobs bill that would provide more than two million jobs for people who are currently unemployed. The
Boston’s “Fast 14” slowed my vacation, but it’s too cool to gripe about
In August 2010, gaping holes opened up in 14 bridges along 4.5 miles of I-93 in Medford, Massachusetts, a crucial commuter corridor for the
Info overload: 10 newsy bits too good to miss
Filed under TMI: Every week, there’s just too much information on the web, and a lot of stuff just gets lost in the shuffle.
Obama and Romney woo Wall Street donors
According to a recent article in the New York Times, a few weeks before announcing his re-election campaign, President Obama invited two dozen Wall
No good news about nuclear waste, says GAO
The U.S. has a huge and growing nuclear-waste problem, and after years of study, multiple proposals and large expenditures, there’s still no workable solution,