How do we define infrastructure?
How much should we spend?
How do we pay for it?
These are some of the many questions that are on people’s minds, but the biggest question is, can Republicans and Democrats actually work together and cut a bipartisan infrastructure deal?
This past week proves that the answer is a resounding yes.
Last Thursday, the Senate passed the bipartisan Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021 (DWWIA).
As the top Republican–also known as the Ranking Member–of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, I worked closely with Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) to craft this meaningful legislation that addresses our country’s aging drinking water and wastewater systems.
Ron Skjong
Since the first human began drawing pictures on a cave wall, we have continually striven to communicate with each other in someway.
History tells us we’ve accomplished this communicating via various forms of hieroglyphics and over many years developed our various alphabets and the numerous platforms from paper to today’s high tech social media outlets.
However, there is one form of communication that is my favorite and that would be a book.
It was important to me to always have a book close by whether in school, the corn field, the barn, the park or in the backpack. There was always a book nearby to give me peace and bring some newness into my life.
The month of May kicks off our slow season as neighbors and visitors head north for the summer. While tourist season may be slowing down with less boats on the
Richard Reich
BERKELEY By almost any measure, Joe Biden’s first 100 days as president have been hugely successful. Getting millions of Americans inoculated against COVID-19 and beginning to revive the economy are central to that success.
Some two-thirds of Americans support Biden’s $1.9 stimulus plan, already enacted. His infrastructure and family plans, which he outlined last Wednesday night at a joint session of Congress, also have broad backing. The $6 trillion price tag for all this would make it the largest expansion of the federal government since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. But for most Americans, it doesn’t feel radical.
Nick Simonson
Amidst all the discussion of global warming, climate change, and pollution on a level so great that a second landmass made of plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean can be seen from outer space, it’s the smaller areas where I encounter garbage that stick with me each spring. After a winter under ice, and snow-covered shorelines opening up to spring anglers, the water is where our impact hopefully not so much as fishermen, as I like to think we have a special connection with the water, but as society in general can be seen.
Sure, there’s the occasional tangle of twisted monofilament tucked into the shoreline rocks along with a worm container or maybe a couple of pop cans from someone in our sporting ranks who obviously doesn’t know better. But in the branches of trees and along the water’s edge, it’s becoming more and more common to find plastic bags, Styrofoam containers, plastic bottles and other everyday items that make their way from where they belon