Tag : infrastructure
Wollman Rink or Plaza Hotel?
Presuming that at some point President Trump runs out of executive orders to issue – granted, that is an open question – he may get around to trying to fulfill some of his more concrete campaign promises. Pun intended. Atop that list is one thing where Trump and many Democrats and Republicans agree: the needRead moreIf ‘bipartisanship’ is now a dirty word, how about a rebranding?
In April, the media company Gannett announced it was spinning off its publishing business and would run its broadcasting and digital units under the new corporate name “Tegna.” Not to be outdone, in June the Tribune Publishing Company — which Gannett was trying to acquire — renamed itself “Tronc,” which it declared stood for “aRead moreA bumpy road to bipartisanship
The road doesn’t care if you are young or old, male or female, rich or poor. The road is there for you, to calm you and excite you, to take you back home and to familiar places to lead to new paths of adventure, discovery and joy. To let the explorer in you explore. WhenRead moreBipartisanship and the quixotic quest for an olive branch
At the end of January, the lost remains of Miguel de Cervantes, best known to many as the author of Don Quixote, were found. In that great novel, Quixote is the self-imagined knight who sets out to restore chivalry to a modern world. The novel inspired the phrases “tilting at windmills” and “quixotic” for the knight’sRead more