Building bridges (or not)

Nov 27, 2007

Updated Dec 14, 2009

This short item in the Nov. 25 issue of iParade magazine rightly castigates congressional spending priorities. We especially like the headline.To remind you of the urgency of the issue, here’s a photo of the collapsed I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, taken Aug. 5, 2007, by Todd Swain of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Why, after this, are our bridges not a priority in Washington?

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