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Entries Tagged as 'Roads & Bridges'

It Is All About The Money

March 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

What is the purpose of those cameras discussed here?
Money!
Dallas is removing about 15 of their cameras. Why you ask?
Not enough revenue:
 Dallas has turned off about 15 red-light cameras used to monitor busy intersections. The city said the cameras are failing to generate enough red-light-running fines to justify their costs.
But I thought they were putting those […]

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Tags: Insurance Issues · JB's Corner · Local Politics · Roads & Bridges · Spending

Lights, Scameras and Government Action

March 11th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Ralph Bristol’s show this morning spent a fair amount of time on the issue of Metro considering the installation of cameras on certain traffic lights. You know the ones. If you run the light, the camera takes a picture of your vehicle’s license plate and they mail you a ticket. Murfreesboro and […]

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Tags: Blue Collar Muse · Insurance Issues · Local Politics · Roads & Bridges · Spending

TN’s AG on FISA, Please Connect the Dots!

March 10th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Last week I posted at Blue Collar Muse on an interesting piece of correspondence that crossed my desk. It was a notice that 25 Attorneys General across the country, in a bi-partisan effort, had signed a letter urging the leadership of the US House to bring the FISA bill to a vote in the […]

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Tags: Blue Collar Muse · GWOT · National Politics · Roads & Bridges · State Politics · Strategies · Tennessee · US Military