The Veep Launches His Presidential Run. Yawn.
By Jeff Smith
MY DAD, WHO was born in remotest Maine and buried in the Arizona
desert, never learned significant Spanish beyond the rudimentary, I d like three beef tacos and a glass of milk, please. Dad grew up before the invention of bilingual education, and
it was his personal purgatory that the two places he spent roughly
equal halves of his life were the metaphoric heads and tails of
the same coin. Aroostook County, Maine, the northernmost in that
state, borders Quebec and New Brunswick, with their large populations
of French Canadians. Dad s French was limited to punch lines of
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Final Selmon Expressway extension over Gandy Blvd. opens Monday
Catherine Hawley reports
TAMPA, Fla. - The construction of an elevated bridge over Gandy Boulevard has been going on for nearly three years. The West Extension of the Selmon Expressway is now complete and will open to drivers Monday, April 19.
It is the final piece of the Selmon Expressway, a 1.9-mile roadway high above Gandy Boulevard. The West Extension will separate commuters from locals and should alleviate the congestion and rush-hour backups. You’re mixed in with a lot of travelers who have no destination here; it’s just the only route through this corridor to a destination somewhere else, explained Joe Waggoner, Executive Director for the Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority. So what the expressway extension does here is it gives them a choice.
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