Adjusting From an Era of Austerity to One of Major Infrastructure Ambitions

Route Fifty: Results from a single Michigan county from the November elections illustrate the risks involved to both political parties from the nation’s long-term neglect of its aging infrastructure.

Democrat Hillary Clinton won Genesee County easily, of course, home to the city of Flint. But her vote loss of 26,234 compared to President Obama’s 2012 performance, was a far larger margin shift in that one county alone, than her total loss statewide, of just 10,704 votes.

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