On AlterNet: infrastructure
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "infrastructure"
Philip Longman, Washington Monthly. January 13, 2009.
A nineteenth-century technology could be the solution to our twenty-first-century problems.
Bill Scher, Campaign for America's Future. December 12, 2008.
With the economy spiraling downwards, Obama crafts new New Deal as conservative dead-enders balk.
Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine. December 9, 2008.
These are good ideas, but the Devil's in the details.
Orion Kriegman, Richard Rosen, AlterNet. November 24, 2008.
The spiraling economy has forced the American consumer to halt and take stock. And that's a good thing.
Mike Davis, Tomdispatch.com. November 19, 2008.
We are now at a crash site, and our priority should be to save the victims. Here's how we do that.
AlterNetOctober 9, 2008.
From the housing crisis to the minimum wage, a look at where the candidates stand on nine important economic issues.
agit pop, Agit-Pop AlterNet: Video. October 1, 2008.
Time to invest in what really matters.
David Bollier, OnTheCommons.org. September 9, 2008.
The New York Times has jumped aboard the corporate cheering squad for the privatization of America's bridges and roads.
Joanna Guldi, AlterNet. August 16, 2008.
"The nation's skeleton is as fragile as the candy-cane bones sucked down to threads on Cinco de Mayo."
Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. July 16, 2008.
Turns out I do hate America -- at least when it blows out my tires.
Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. June 16, 2008.
Lefty book club step forward in progressive infrastructure-building.
Howie Klein, Down With Tyranny! AlterNet: PEEK. May 13, 2008.
Public infrastructure is deteriorating and Wall St. stands to profit from it.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 23, 2008.
It's scary to have to pay the piper.
Dane Smith, Workday Minnesota. February 5, 2008.
Nothing that smart investment couldn't fix.
Paul Buchheit, AlterNet. August 14, 2007.
After years of letting the wealthy off the hook, some lawmakers are now turning to American workers to foot the bill for repairing the nation's frayed infrastructure.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. August 3, 2007.
After swallowing 30 years of small-government rhetoric, our infrastructure, once the pride of the developed world, is falling apart around us. We're reaping what we've sown.
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. July 23, 2007.
In these weird times of privatization fever, selling off bridges, toll roads and airports is no longer considered preposterous -- for the billionaires who can afford them it's good business.
Deanna Zandt, AlterNet: PEEK. January 12, 2007.
Deanna Zandt: An army of technologists, activists and organizers are insisting on tech tools that work.
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. November 29, 2006.
It's not the terrorists who are targeting and destroying the heart of America; it's Bush & Co.!