MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Crumbling Bridges’ $140 Billion Tab Leaves Business Paying Price
By Donal on Thu, 11/03/2011 - 8:23pm |Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Jim Benton, a Jeffersonville, Indiana, jewelry-store owner, says sales fell 40 percent in two weeks after the Sherman Minton Bridge connecting his border community to customers in Kentucky closed Sept. 9. ...
Benton’s plight is playing out for small businesses across the U.S., where 3,538 bridges were closed in 2010, as customers shop elsewhere rather than take detours. With the average U.S. bridge seven years from the end of its useful life, and one-fourth of 600,000 crossings classified by regulators as “structurally deficient,” more places will be hurt by closings, ....
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