I have to agree strongly with Interstate 68 through Cumberland, Maryland. That is a cluster -- you drop from 70 MPH and make a hard 40 MPH left turn after descending a steep hill. Then throw in a bunch of city traffic merging on and exiting the interstate. It's so bad they've built massive concrete walls, so that when big rigs crash, they won't hopefully burn all of the downtown.
Days are getting steadily shorter in Albany …
Tonight the sun will set at 8:14 PM with dusk at 8:46 PM.
Next Tuesday, the sun will set at 8:05 PM with dusk at 8:36 PM.
Saturday August 12th, the sun will set at 8:00 PM with dusk at 8:30 PM.
Tuesday August 22nd, the sun will set at 7:44 PM with dusk at 8:15 PM.
And on Thursday, August 31st, the sun will set at 7:30 PM with dusk at 7:59 PM.
"The recent trumpist trumpeting about the plans of Chinese manufacturer Foxconn to open a manufacturing facility in Wisconsin omitted a few key details -- like the fact that Foxconn is being given a sweetheart tax-break that's topped up with 15 years' worth of guarantees of up to $200m/year in cash subsidies at taxpayer expense -- a record-setting taxpayer subsidy that exceeds the previous Wisconsin record-holder by a factor of fifty."
"The total bill for this incentive package that Wisconsin is giving the super-profitable Chinese manufacturer? Three billion dollars."
"But there's more! Wisconsin cities will also have to provide incentives, including hundreds of millions more in infrastructure, and exemptions on environmental rules that will allow Foxconn to pollute watersheds, drain water habitats, and reengineer Wisconsin's freshwater sources, up to and including Lake Michigan."
