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Who to contact tags on poles and other utility infrastructure in the public space

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Asset tag with information on who to contact on a Verizon Wireless pole, 2700 South, Salt Lake City. A few months ago I got into a comment thread argument on a Washington Post article, about a situation in Silver Spring in addressing a problem with equipment hanging off dangerously from a pole (" When it comes to utility wires and boxes, companies pass the buck ").

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Gerrymandering in Utah

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Top right, how Republicans organized the state's House districts after the 2020 Census. The biggest reason I didn't want to move to Utah (we moved to join our household with my wife's aging parents, her father, who had dementia, died in February) is because the politics are so nasty. Utah is one of the reddest of the red states, with a Senator and Congressmen who abetted the insurrection, a State Legislature that is 70% Republican and 90% Mormon, and gerrymandering designed to dilute the progres

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