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...Barack Obama's reported pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). The former Senate Democratic leader has an understanding of the nation's health-care problem that comes not just from Senate hearing rooms or staff briefings. Daschle has seen, as few in Washington have, the particular toll that the broken system has taken on rural America. When I went to South Dakota 15 years ago to do a story on the problem, Daschle drove me around himself, spreading a road map on the front seat of his car and taking me to places where poverty rates were...
...pirates, largely from lawless coastal Somali towns, have basically turned the heavily plied route through the Gulf of Aden and into the Indian Ocean into a toll road. But as the pirates are becoming more brazen, the international community's patience is running out. "Right now, it's just cheaper to pay the ransom," says Zinni, who led the pullout of U.N. troops from Somalia in 1995. "But just wait until a cruise ship gets taken down and there's some sort of miscalculation and a bunch of people get killed...
Unfortunately, the primary obstacle to fixing our infrastructure is exactly the problem that anyone still reading is facing; infrastructure is profoundly, unequivocally, and utterly unexciting. There are no union-like picketers banding together to rally for the local toll road. There are no passionate highway rights activists waging sit-ins until freeways receive the new lanes they need to survive. There are no “Save the Bridges” campaigns, and no “I Stand with Route 84” bumper stickers. Despite the staggering number of people served by any individual road or bridge (except...
...recent report by the GAO provides examples of PPPs for highway infrastructure in the U.S., and highlights those which involve the management of an existing entity—such as the lease of the Chicago Skyway to a private entity for $1.83 billion or the lease of the Indiana Toll Road for $3.85 billion—as well as those which involve bidding out contracts to build and operate new toll roads, such as the part of the Trans-Texas Corridor which calls for a new toll road between Dallas and San Antonio. These transactions usually provide the municipality...
Even though this program will not go into effect until this spring, its announcement this fall is fitting given the University’s recent focus on sustainability. The transportation toll on resources and the environment will no longer be issue. Other small impacts will also become evident, such as a decrease in the amount of plastic bags required by HUL to distribute to students transporting hard copies of books...