Here are the details for the repair of the Piseco Powley Road lower bridge in Stratford. The repair is expected to cost $81k, with $60k coming from the state storm recovery funding and the rest from CHIPS. The bridge was inspected by the DOT in May 2020. They have the full estimate of repairs here.
The vast majority of the American police state remains firmly within the public sector. But this does not mean the criminal justice buildup has nothing to do with capitalism. At its heart, the new American repression is very much about the restoration and maintenance of ruling class power.
American society and economy have from the start evolved through forms of racialized violence, but criminal justice was not always so politically central. For the better part of a century after the end of Reconstruction in the 1870s, the national incarceration rate hovered at around 100 to 110 per 100,000. But then, in the early 1970s, the incarceration rate began a precipitous and continual climb upward.
Public Health Expert Calls To Repair Distrust In A COVID-19 Vaccine : Coronavirus Live Updates : NPR
But it's unclear how many people will actually get a vaccine if it's approved. Only about half of Americans said in May that they were willing to get a coronavirus vaccine.
That resistance doesn't surprise Dr. Sandra Quinn, a professor and chair of the family science department at the University of Maryland, whose work at the start of the H1N1 pandemic showed even more vaccine skepticism. A 2009 study she co-authored found that less than 10% of all respondents said they would embrace a vaccine, with many believing the perceived side effects would outweigh a relatively mild illness.
7/16/2020 by iHeartRadio
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The robber barons were not a group of evil super villains. OR WERE THEY? Learn all about these titans of industry from the Gilded Age in today’s episode.
While I’m pretty sure they just make up shit in some of these podcasts, this was still informative and worth the hour listen.