On the 25th of June, 1950, I was spending the weekend with my grandparents in Granby, Connecticut. My grandfather was out of the house on an errand and my grandmother was sitting in her usual chair in the living room reading a detective novel. I was watching television in an adjacent room. Since it was…
The day before yesterday, I actually posted different versions of the same column one day apart. Shame on me. In my defense, we have visiting family here over the last week and my office is occupied by my brother-in-law. That leaves me bouncing back and forth from desktop to laptop and back to desktop. This,…
President Trump says he has a two hundred billion dollar plan to repair and rebuild this country’s infrastructure. At first blush, that sounds like welcome news, because just about everyone understands that our roads, bridges, tunnels and dams, plus the power grid and pipelines and sewer systems and God knows what else, all need fixing….
Over the past few days, there has been a lot of back-and-forth emailing among *RPA members and posts on Facebook all triggered by the Trump Administration’s much-ballyhooed trillion dollar infrastructure plan. Wow! A trillion dollars! That’s a thousand billion! And that’s great, because this country’s infrastructure is in sad shape. We could blow through…