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Transportation Funding vs. Immigration Reform (60 Minutes vs. Saturday Night Live)

Talking Logistics

A few years ago, it was the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. If it’s not one thing, it’s another…that keeps transportation infrastructure funding down the priority list for Congress. Then it was Obamacare and health care reform. And all the while, our roads, bridges, and ports continue to decay.

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The Weight of Memory

Tailwind

These ‘draft dodgers’ avoided a draft that provided exemptions to those who had committed to higher education and had the means and connections to avoid it; at least until that policy was changed in the early 70s by the Nixon Administration. (In You must always honor and love the soldier.

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