For all the comments I get from people about how they’re jealous of my seeming to have done just about whatever I wanted and lived a pretty interesting and varied life compared to their more settled, responsible paths, I still feel sometimes like I missed the experiential boat. Truth be told, the first thing I [...]
Volume II No. 5
Takin’ It To the Bridge
Move over, James Brown; Joe Bertolozzi is the hardest-working man in show business
Steve Hopkins • August 1st, 2009
Joseph Bertolozzi is nothing short of a force of nature, a man for whom the word “no” seems beyond the range of a usually sharp sense of hearing. Perhaps that’s the result of the life-changing childhood earache that led him to be alone in his bedroom for hours listening to the Disney version of the [...]
Stimulus Clouds
How federal dollars are directed away from the projects that need them the most
Steve Hopkins • August 1st, 2009
Due to a fundamentally flawed allocation methodology, hundreds of millions in federal economic stimulus dollars trickling their way into the rebuilding of the nation’s crumbling infrastructure are being co-opted by “low hanging fruit” projects, chosen for their relatively favorable position in the approval pipeline, rather than because of any potential public benefit or mitigation of [...]
Walking On Air
It took a miracle or three, but the Walkway Over the Hudson is truly happening
Steve Hopkins • August 1st, 2009
It’s September, which means that in a little more than a month, the much-anticipated Walkway Over the Hudson will be completed, buffed up, inspected and ready for the teeming hordes to clamber aboard the former Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad Bridge for a massive grand opening celebration of the world’s longest, possibly highest and by far coolest pedestrian [...]
