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Tag: Infrastructure

What the other “public option” can teach us

March 17, 2010 Renee Shur Good government, Health care, Infrastructure Leave a comment

Community-owned-and-operated utilities are among America’s longest-running “public options.” So before writing off the healthcare public option completely and seeing it consigned to the junk

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Infrastructure: 100 years old and counting

February 25, 2010 Renee Shur Infrastructure 2 comments

See below for updated information in light of late February, 2010 blizzard in Northeast. Ninety-six years ago, in Cleveland, Ohio, the Great Lakes Storm

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