Don t miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. War is God s way of teaching Americans geography, wrote Ambrose Bierce, whose bitter insights were shaped in large part by a terrible war. As a soldier in the Civil War, Bierce witnessed scenes of slaughter over what was, in important ways, a fight to control rivers. You can read it in the names of the great Union armies: the Army of the Ohio, the Army of the Potomac, the Army of the Tennessee, the Army of the Cumberland. The battle over slavery was also a battle to preserve free commerce from east to west on the Ohio River and from north to south on the Mississippi.
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Turns out, they have been key pieces of Colorado’s galloping economy over the last 30 years.
Infrastructure always is. Roads, airports, railways and broadband are the “connective tissue for human cooperation and communication,” a former colleague, David Von Drehle, wrote recently.
As we contemplate the road to recovery post-pandemic, infrastructure investment is one of the surest ways to jumpstart our comeback.
“Infrastructure is a true investment in our future,” former Gov. Bill Owens told me. “You build a road and it pays you back for 50 years.” If history is any indication, building our infrastructure is one of the best ways to rebuild our economy, Tony Milo, executive director of the Colorado Contractors Association, told one of our reporters, Joey Bunch. For every $1 billion added to Colorado’s construction industry, $2.2 billion is produced in output in the form of jobs, household earnings, and value across all of Colorado’s’ industries.”
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The void that ate Cuomo
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“There was a void in information, and that void created confusion for people, and my administration created that void.” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo
(Our scene opens on a conference room in the state Office of Emergency Management; present are Gen. Stevenson, Prof. Von Drehle, Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.)
Stevenson: Folks, I’m just an old soldier, but I’ve never seen anything to compare to this. To summarize the current crisis: There’s a large sentient cloud lit from within by some otherworldly purple light that has descended on the state Capitol like a fist made of vapor, leaving behind a horrible smell and issuing threats at loud volume.