is not that it reveals some horrible “what-if”
future; it’s that it reveals the painful absurdity of our immediate situation.
In Josh Bales’ story, the character Donovan is ready to blow a hole in someone to get his wife’s oxygen concentrator fixed. A vital part, the compressor, needs to be replaced, but it’s a specialized design extras aren’t easy to come by. Our hero, Mallory, goes on a desperate journey to find such a part. She navigates roads that are under the control of corporate drones, dodging a toll and getting detained in response.
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If only there was a way for New York lawmakers to ease the burden of the state’s ridiculously high taxes, infuse small businesses and boost employment with some…
At first glance, the 549-page, $303.5 billion bipartisan highway bill that the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will mark up Wednesday appears to be a direct descendant of the bill the committee approved in 2019.
Both included climate titles. Both emphasize resilience â 57 mentions in the 2019 bill and 75 in the newest iteration. Both include a new grant program promoting resilient infrastructure. Both are bipartisan.
The difference is that this year, with a renewed focus on infrastructure, the bill, or some version of it, may become a cornerstone of President Joe Bidenâs infrastructure proposal and one of the few bright spots of bipartisanship in what has become an increasingly tense process.