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Washington Post columnist: Now is the time to be an infrastructure hawk, not a deficit hawk

Posted Wed, 2013/06/05 - 4:52pm by RCAP

Ezra Klein, a columnist for The Washington Post, writes on June 5 about being an infrastructure hawk. He presents an economic and employment argument for investing in infrastructure at this time when interest rates are low and unemployment rates in construction are high.

Read his column

Through disasters and good times, water keeps on running, but for how long?

Posted Wed, 2012/11/14 - 5:07pm by RCAP

When a natural disaster hits, such as the recent Superstorm Sandy, many utilities are knocked out in residential areas. Electricity is the most common service to go down, but what happens less often is water service being disrupted. It's nothing short of remarkable that many places, urban and rural, are able to keep water flowing to and from our homes 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year and during all manner of weather and seasons.

Washington Post: Beverage companies, fearing lack of water will hurt business, invest millions in conservation

Posted Fri, 2012/08/17 - 4:36pm by RCAP

This Aug. 8 article begins:

"WEST COLUMBIA, Texas — Fifty miles outside the nation’s fourth-largest city is a massive field of waist-high grass, buzzing bees and palm-size butterflies, just waiting to be ripped up by an entrepreneur.

"Rather than develop this pristine remnant of coastal prairie, vast enough to house more than 300 football fields, the Dr Pepper Snapple Group is investing hundreds of thousands of dollars to ensure it remains untouched...