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Marc YachtNovember 18, 2015

Being a strong imperial power offers no guarantee of continued existence. Ask any Mayan whose empire survived 3,500 years. They sit alongside the Roman, British, Spanish and Mongol empires. The French faced the revolution with Madame Defarge knitting while the People’s Court sentenced French nobility to death. One cannot ignore the Russian revolution and the […]

Mark FerruloAugust 31, 2015

America’s roads and bridges are slowly crumbling and, to make matters worse, the fund that pays to maintain and improve our nation’s transportation needs is on the verge of going broke. But as Congress rushes to replenish the fund, it should not make a big mistake that will cost us hundreds of billions of dollars. […]

Mark FerruloAugust 30, 2015

America’s roads and bridges are slowly crumbling and, to make matters worse, the fund that pays to maintain and improve our nation’s transportation needs is on the verge of going broke. But as Congress rushes to replenish the fund, it should not make a big mistake that will cost us hundreds of billions of dollars. […]

Daniel TilsonJuly 12, 2015

When is a “good” job growth report bad news? When it’s about Florida, and serves both to burnish Gov. Rick Scott’s ginned-up “job creator” status, and further the creation of a new socioeconomic order in the state. The job growth report released this month by ADP Research Institute places Florida second nationally with almost 32,000 […]

Tag: crumbling infrastructure

Dr. Marc J. Yacht: The mighty always have fallen. Always.

Fight over infrastructure funding will reverberate in Florida

Mark Ferrulo: Fight over infrastructure funding will reverberate in Florida

Dan Tilson: Rick Scott’s job-growth puffery masks Florida’s low-wage future