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Infrastructure from the 50’s, tolls in our future?

The case for infrastructure spending, compelling and a little scary, invest our way to growth …

Difference Engine: A member too few

Bridge Down

BY ALL accounts, the four-lane bridge over the River Skagit in Washington state, along Interstate 5 between Seattle and the Canadian border, was in pretty good shape for a 58-year-old structure. It had been inspected for cracks as recently as last November, and was not even on the state’s list of bridges judged “structurally deficient”…