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Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D–Delaware) recently introduced the “Restoring Essential Public Access and Improving Resilient Infrastructure Act — known as simply as the “REPAIR Infrastructure” Act — which would reauthorize the federal Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods pilot program, and increase its funding to $15 billion, even as GOP-lead attacks on the current iteration of that program continue, writes Kea Wilson.
How did parking lots swallow one of America’s hottest cities — and make it even hotter?
Centennial events downplay the violent history of one of America’s most “iconic” highways, and obscure how that violence persists to this day.
The U.S. is becoming a dying petrostate, while China leads the world in renewable energy.
