If you live in America, undoubtedly you drive on roads and highways maintained by the state in which you reside. And, just as certainly, many miles of those byways are in poor […]
Imagination – the Green Constitutional Congress, part 3
While awareness and externalities were memes in the Green Constitutional Congress, they weren’t the only ones. For that matter, neither was the most important one. Bruce Mau made that abundantly clear with […]
Awareness – the Green Constitutional Congress, part 1
Monday night, Dialog:City held the poorly attended Green Constitutional Congress with the intent to open a democratic dialog between the attendees and the panelists. Instead, what the attendees got was nearly 30 […]
Bad bridges? Still far too few fixes
In the coming week, I’m going to drive about 1,200 miles through four states. During that journey, I’ll cross bridges over several significant rivers, including the Hudson and Connecticut rivers. The bridges […]
Bad highways? Blame politics, technology, new driving habits
It’s July of 2023, and, just 20 years after President Bush decided to spend $1.2 billion to develop hydrogen fuel-cell technologies for vehicles, you’ve just picked up your finally-ready-for-prime-time luxury BMW Hydrogen […]
Pols fail to comprehend breadth of infrastructure crisis
About 10 months have passed since the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed into the Mississippi River during afternoon rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145. Construction of the bridge’s $234 million […]
Don't let the future be compressed–fight for a free Internet
By Martin Bosworth Last week AT&T exec Jim Cicconi did his part to spread FUD by claiming that the Internet will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010, bolstering this doomsday […]
Pop quiz: Did you know that you may lose your television service in less than ten months?
By Martin Bosworth Is the answer to the above question “No?” Well, that’s part of the problem–millions of Americans are in the same boat, and they are equally unaware of the situation […]
Paulson's rescue plan: Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic
By Martin Bosworth I was deeply amused to read the breathless news coverage of Hammerin’ Hank Paulson’s “ambitious” and “sweeping” plans to restructure the federal financial regulatory structure. It says something about […]
I-35W bridge and the nation's infrastructure: Little has changed
If someone dumped 99 tons of sand on you, and you weren’t in good shape, you’d collapse, too. The National Transportation Safety Board has released its fifth update of its investigation of […]
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