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Old infrastructure is a real problem; new law necessary

Flooding in East Village and on Interstate 5 in downtown San Diego last week after two water mains broke Nov. 21 created both huge headaches for drivers and indelible images of water coursing down the freeway. It took until Wednesday for I-5 conditions to become close to normal. But the mess ...

Keep infrastructure in the public’s hands

by Donald Cohen The recently passed $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill will provide desperately needed federal dollars to fix our roads, water systems and other public infrastructure. But the bill is not all sunshine and rainbows. A provision in the bill incentivizes ...

Thanks to gerrymandering, GOP can continue to behave abominably

by Jackie Calmes House Republicans began the year with nearly two-thirds of them voting against ratifying Joe Biden’s election. In doing so, they allied with the insurrectionists, incited by Donald Trump, who’d stormed the Capitol just hours before to prevent the constitutionally ...

America gets swindled yet again

Remember those “shovel-ready jobs” promised by the Obama-Biden administration in 2011? When many failed to appear after passage of this spending boondoggle, President Obama joked, “Shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected.” That law, noted Citizens Against Government ...