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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). Washington Post , July 13, 2003. You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before.

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Who Gets Elected?

ASPA National Weblog

Here in America, only about 5 percent of Americans give the maximum amount possible to any candidate and, in 2012, 132 Americans gave 60 percent of all the Super Pac money spent. Globally, the 62 richest billionaires own and control as much wealth as the poorer half of the world’s population. These are not radical or even new ideas.

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