Showing posts with label Roads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roads. Show all posts
Sunday, June 14, 2026

Terrorist Supporters Adopt A Road

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Right along the way where, just a few months ago, a Hezbollah affiliated terrorist did a vehicle ramming attack at Temple Israel, a group th...
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Friday, April 17, 2026

Dam Trouble

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What happens when you have 20 inches of snow pack quickly melting and days of non-stop heavy rain at the same time? A really bad time for a ...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Without Government, Who Would Create A Shortage Of Road Salt?

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The Detroit Free Press:  Salt shortage has Michigan scrambling to keep roads clear Yep, there was a clear lack of planning ahead and...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Maybe Quit Wasting Money On DEI Until You're At Least Competent In The Basics

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The Oakland County Commission, the government that runs Oakland County recently became completely Democrat-dominated as of the last election...
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Saturday, January 13, 2024

Snow Far Snow Not So Good

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From yesterday afternoon to this morning, we got 5 inches of snow, which led to the roads becoming a wreck with multiple closures from downe...
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Friday, August 25, 2023

That Was A Lot Of Rain

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Got caught in quite a storm last night driving home from jitsu. Lots and lots of lightning and thunder and massive amounts of water coming d...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Surprise: Not Only Do Michigan Roads Suck, But The Quality Control Does Too!

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Well, surprising no one really, there's a very cozy relationship between the state road agency and the contractors that "fix" ...
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Thursday, November 17, 2022

So Gov Whitmer You Spent The Last 4 Years Doing What About Roads Exactly?

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Gov Whitmer's campaign slogan in the 2018 election was she was going "To Fix The Damn Roads". Despite a very visible flurry of...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Media: When Republicans Point Out The Truth, it's An "Attack"

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When a Republican points out facts about Democrats, the Media reports it as an attack or that "Republicans pounce", not about the ...
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Wednesday, July 08, 2020

Why We Can't Have Nice Things - Michigan Roads Edition

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Michigan roads are renowned as being rather lousy. So much so that there is a marked difference as you cross the state line with Ohio, even...
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Friday, March 30, 2018

Tax And Spend, And Spend Even More

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Over at Bayou Renaissance Man , Peter posts about the record revenues government is taking in . As the economy improves under Trump, more t...
Monday, August 15, 2016

Why We Can't Build Nice Roads - Because To Even Fix 18 Miles Of Road Will Take 14 Years

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Yes, you read that right, for a stretch of 18 miles of I75 in Michigan, it will take 14 years at a cost of 1.3 billion dollars, or 72 millio...
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Friday, May 23, 2014

Michigan's Bumpy Road Paradox

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As everyone hits the roads here in Michigan for the Memorial Day long weekend, they can ponder the great Michigan road paradox. Michigan ha...
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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Michigan: The Year Of The Pothole

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Some years get the cool names like Year of The Dragon or Year of The Horse. This year Michigan gets the decidedly uncool Year of the Pothole...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Getting To FL Is Half The Fun

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Where we stayed in Florida is a good 1270 miles from our home.  Getting there via automobile with sanity intact upon arrival took some car...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Because Proposing to Raise Taxes is Such a Winning Idea.....

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The Detroit Free Press: Gov. Rick Snyder to propose $40 annual fee to fix roads In addition to the new $40 fee that would be in addition t...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Road From The War of 1812 Featured in the Detroit Free Press

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The Detroit Free Press: Downriver War of 1812 trail gets its due A road built through a swamp built out of logs for the movement of troop...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Other's Flat Tires And Empty Heads In Rush Hour

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So this morning in rush hour a few flakes of snow were falling. Nothing heavy but it was starting to leave its mark on the roads, but there...
Monday, November 02, 2009

Michigan's Inefficient Spending on Roads - The Fort Street Rebuild As An Example

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Part of the reason Michigan's roads are in such terrible condition, compared to other states is not just that work and maintenance has s...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Michigan Roads Decline as State fails to obtain Federal funds through Neglect

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Not only are Michigan’s roads some of the worst in the United States due to lousy road maintenance and repair practices as well as chronic u...