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THE BUZZ THE BIG REVEAL: Gov. Gavin Newsom has been on a victory lap around the state all week, touting and teasing his highly anticipated May budget revision. Today, he’ll finally fill in the details and likely face some hard questions on the massive ‘21-’22 financial plan for the state that he says is “roaring back” from the Covid pandemic.
Colonial Pipeline restarting operation, 10 states can permit overweight fuel shipments on interstate, federal highways
Colonial Pipeline said it initiated the restart of pipeline operations Wednesday afternoon.
Following the restart, the company said it will likely take several days for the product delivery supply chain to return to normal and some markets served by Colonial Pipeline may experience, or continue to experience, intermittent service interruptions during the start-up period. Colonial said it will move as much gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel as is safely possible and will continue to do so until markets return to normal.
Colonial Pipeline had been struggling to get its operations back in order following a cyberattack over the weekend.
The Vital Republican Role for Fixing Broken Government | Opinion Philip K. Howard
, founder, Campaign for Common Good On 5/13/21 at 7:30 AM EDT
In his recent speech to Congress, President Joe Biden called upon America to prove democracy still works.
While many Americans agree with much of what he proposes, making government work requires more than new spending. Failing schools, unaccountable police, decade-long infrastructure permitting and other public failures have convinced most Americans that democracy needs reform, not just greater ambitions.
Two-thirds of Americans, according to a 2019 AP/University of Chicago poll, believe government needs major structural changes. Yet political realities leave Democrats mute on reforming government. Neither Biden nor the Democrats in Congress will fix the imbedded bureaucratic rigidities because of their political alliances with public unions and other interest groups.
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Get your kicks on America s original road trip this 2,448-mile journey from Chicago to Santa Monica is a trip down memory lane of our nation s history.
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The Mother Road. America’s Highway. The Main Street of America. The Will Rogers Highway. Route 66 goes by many names, but no matter how travelers refer to it, there’s one constant everyone can agree on:
“Historic Route 66 is the quintessential American experience,” explains Ken Busby, executive director and CEO of Route 66 Alliance, a nonprofit organization in Tulsa, Oklahoma dedicated to the Route’s preservation, promotion and enhancement. “It speaks to westward migration during the Great Depression, a road of hopes and dreams and opportunities. Route 66 also represents the entrepreneurial spirit of America from diners and motels to curio shops and
Biden s infrastructure bill may finally see the removal of Oakland s Interstate 980
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I-980, as seen from 14th St., Oakland, Calif.Google Street View
Thanks to an earthquake, and years of public dismay, two of San Francisco’s most disliked freeways the Embarcadero Freeway and Hayes Valley section of the Central Freeway came down in the 1990s.
Now, as part of President Joe Biden s forthcoming massive infrastructure bill, Oakland s controversial Interstate 980 may see the same fate.
The short, sunken 2-mile freeway was completed in 1985 and bisects Oakland s downtown, separating the city’s busy Broadway and Telegraph corridors from the largely Black and working-class neighborhoods of West Oakland.