One touch is worth ten thousand words.
There is now a fairly crowded field out there of people who are incredibly wealthy that are giving money to advance their own political agendas.
Pennsylvania is one of the worst states in country when it comes to the condition of its infrastructure, and Philadelphia isn't any better off than Pittsburgh. Nine million people a day travel over 900 bridges classified as structurally deficient, some of them on a heavily traveled section of I-95.
People make first judgments about people based on their appearance. There's an old saying, "The clothes make the man. ".
Business leaders, labor unions, governors, mayors, congressmen and presidents have all complained about a lack of funding for years, but aside from a one-time cash infusion from the stimulus program, nothing much has changed. There is still no consensus on how to solve the problem or where to get the massive amounts of money needed to fix it, just another example of political paralysis in Washington.
Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs.
Three hundred bridges become structurally deficient each year in the state of Pennsylvania. That's one percent added to the already 23 percent they already have. They just can't fix them fast enough.
The mark of an honest man. . . is that he means what he says and knows what he means.
Breaking up monotony is key to life and it doesn't matter whether I'm stacking shelves or writing songs, if I was doing the same thing every day I just couldn't take it.
I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.
A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?