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America must rebuild its crumbling infrastructure

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Recently, the world learned yet again that inadequate investment in infrastructure – roads, bridges, tunnels, and railways – can have tragic consequences. This time, those consequences befell the people of Genoa, Italy, where the collapse of a 51-year-old bridge killed 43 people.  Area residents had long expressed concern about the bridge’s structural integrity. For years,…