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Lessons From the Mother Road About Government

Posted on November 3, 2012, 12:11 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

When government acts, people’s lives change, both for the better and the worse. The three layers of government programs (the Santa Fe tracks, 66 itself, and I-40) sometimes simultaneously visible from Route 66, exemplify that.

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