Love them or hate them, the railroads created a template that other nascent industries followed. Telegraph and telephone, automobile and airplane, radio and television, and now the internet each of these technologies, in its own way, made us ever more tightly connected. Industries that sprang up around these new technological products generated enormous wealth and great power for some. And all of them eventually felt the hand of government regulation.
But first the railroad had to come through.
Railroads dominated the economy in the 19th century as no industry would again; they practically were the industrial economy for decades. Charles Dow’s first stock index
The year 2020 will remain a black mark on our history, both as Americans and Idahoans, for decades to come. COVID-19 ravaged our country and our state, millions of people lost their jobs, and authoritarianism rose and fell for the first time in a century. Weakness, anger and a lack of leadership on the state and federal level largely carried the day. While there is a bright shining light at the end of this tunnel, a lot of damage has been done. So much death. So much despair. Among the casualties of 2020: the Republican Party.
Itâs officially dead.
Former Republicans like myself have seen this coming for years, but 2020 made it official. We were once the party of capitalism, energy and possibility, now the GOP in Idaho and across the country is just scared and angry. The party of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Eisenhower is unrecognizable. As far as Iâm concerned, Republicans can no longer claim those guys â two of whom are on Mount Rushmore. The GOP used to be the party tha
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The Kosher Gourmet by Nick Malgieri: Chocolate molten delight with creme anglaise is a simple yet elegant make-ahead dessert The Interstate Highway System, which the U.S. began constructing in the 1950s, has a complicated legacy, to say the least. Boosters see it as the greatest infrastructure program undertaken in the country during the second half of the twentieth century, connecting vast areas in new and important ways, unlocking largely untapped regions outside of cities that helped spark a new kind of middle-class living. Detractors accuse the system s planners and builders of emptying out cities and encouraging the rise of low-density suburban sprawl. That process, critics argue, prompted white flight to the suburbs, while stranding poor minorities in urban neighborhoods disfigured by the highways that bisected them. To these critics, the Interstate Highway System is just another example of America s racist past.