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Yes, this week’s topic and questions are based on the legendary baseball film, “Field of Dreams.” Actor James Earl Jones said repeatedly, “If you build it, they will come!” He was talking about building a baseball stadium in an Iowa cornfield. I thought about that a lot this past week as President Biden offered a major infrastructure plan, and then Senate Republican offered a more slimmed-down alternative. Will they come? “Let’s “brunch” on that this week.
“Biden Channels FDR” – The president’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan may be one of the most ambitious public works projects since President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, which included the CCC and WPA, which built a lot of stuff. “These are investments we have to make,” Biden said of his plan. “We can afford to make them. To put it another way we can’t afford not to.” Many presidents (and governors) have employed big infrastructure spending
Jarrell Jackman: Santa Barbara Presidio Hosts More ‘Mudslinging’ and a World-Class Exhibition
Restoration project builds to groundbreaking display of early ceramics and their homemade importance to Spanish California
Then-Santa Barbara Mayor Marty Blum, center, celebrates progress on the Presidio Northwest Corner Project with Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation board, staff, supporters and other guests in 2008. (Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation photo)
The reconstructed adobe defense wall of the Presidio northwest corner. This 165-foot section represents about 10 percent of the original defense wall the Spanish built in the 1780s. (Jarrell Jackman photo)
Presidio northwest corner foundation work, circa 2008. The foundation was being completely rebuilt with no concrete used except in the mortar and the standing pylon that provides the building with seismic protection. In the presidio’s early years, boulders were carted in wagons to the site from the bea
The market is expected to gain momentum from a rise in the implementation of strict safety rules and regulations for pedestrians and drivers. Additionally, governments of various countries are enforcing OEMs to install airbags in commercial vehicles as well as passenger cars to double the safety features.
In terms of vehicle type, the market is grouped into commercial vehicles and passenger cars. Amongst them, at present, the passenger car segment holds the largest automotive airbags market share. It is projected to lead the market in the coming years. The governments of several countries are putting forward stringent laws regarding the safety of the passengers. Combined with this, a rise in the production and sales of passenger cars in emerging nations would augment the growth of this segment.
At the height of the urban renewal era, state and local governments across the country strategically routed highway projects through the heart of Black neighborhoods displacing residents, destroying businesses, and shattering communities. Now, advocates from St. Paul, Minn., are hoping to restore some of what was ripped away by building a land bridge over a troubled roadway and to provide an unconventional model for other communities.
After more than five years of organizing and a decade of dreaming, advocates from the nonprofit Reconnect Rondo are seeking $6.2 million from Minnesota to reconnect the historically Black Rondo neighborhood, which was largely razed in order to make way for Interstate 94 between 1956 and 1968, displacing 60 percent of residents. But unlike many of the highway removal proposals that have been applauded by urbanists, the project would leave the interstate intact, and install a massive, roughly 16 acre of cap that would become Minnesota’s first “Af