U.S. Infrastructure Is in Dire Straits, Report Says
nytimes.com“More than a quarter of the nation’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. Leaky pipes lose an estimated seven billion gallons of clean drinking water every day. And aging sewage systems send billions of gallons of untreated wastewater cascading into the nation’s waterways each year.
These are among the findings of a report to be released…by the American Society of Civil Engineers, which assigned an overall D grade to the nation’s infrastructure and estimated that it would take a $2.2 trillion investment from all levels of government over the next five years to bring it into a state of good repair.”
Source: NYTimes
“Look at the murder rate in this city. He's murdering schools. He's murdering jobs. He's murdering housing. I don't know what else to call him. He's the murder mayor.”
—Karen Lewis on Rahm Emanuel after the announcement of 54 school closures from DNAinfo.com.
Ouch. That actually hurts. And talk about #badlooks: he’s on ski vacation in Utah with his kids who go to private school right now.
