New Hampshire GOP lawmakers care about you
Focused as ever on the issues that matter, Republican lawmakers in New Hampshire are eagerly pushing http://www.newburypo...ter-Massachusetts a plan to post road signs on the stateÂs border that would alert travelers to the dangers of entering neighboring liberal Massachusetts.
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Under the proposal, the state Department of Transportation would erect the signs, but businesses associated with helmets, cellphones, or cars would pay for them  and get their name on the sign. Part advertisement, part official road sign, the plan would blur the line between government purpose and corporate interest.
http://thinkprogress...tts-border-signs/
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."
-- E.L. Doctorow
