{"id":28844,"date":"2024-07-03T06:33:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T10:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=28844"},"modified":"2024-07-03T06:44:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T10:44:51","slug":"good-government-gets-little-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=28844","title":{"rendered":"Good government gets little attention"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nPete Buttigieg<\/em><\/p>\n

Pete Buttigieg, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, was in the backwater city of Winston-Salem yesterday for the groundbreaking on a small project backed by the Department of Transportation — a $4.8 million pathway for bicycles and pedestrians that will link downtown with the city’s medical center. That’s small potatoes as transportation projects go. But Buttigieg is a hard-working guy.<\/p>\n

In the turmoil that has arisen over President Biden’s debate performance last week, Buttigieg is one of the people mentioned as Biden’s replacement. Buttigieg is a wonk, a highly effective secretary of transportation, a veteran who served in Afghanistan, and a Rhodes scholar. I was happy to stand out in the July sun to see him in action.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, both Buttigieg and Governor Cooper were in Raleigh for the start of a bigger project. That’s a railway project that will connect Raleigh to Richmond and then onward to Washington and beyond. <\/p>\n

According to the Raleigh News & Observer, while in Raleigh Buttigieg dinged Trump without naming him: \u201cEvery one of those projects — and the 57,000 others that are funded, and counting, through President Biden\u2019s infrastructure package — is really about one simple purpose, which is to make everyday life easier for the American people. … I would be remiss if I didn\u2019t note that this is in contrast to what we\u2019ve seen before, a prior administration that declared \u2018Infrastructure Week\u2019 every year without any results until it became a punch line, a byword for all talk and no action.\u201d<\/p>\n

Events like this force the local media to turn out whether they want to or not. The backwater media would much rather be writing about chicken sandwiches, petty real estate deals, and third-tier chefs in crummy and overpriced local eateries that won’t last a year.<\/p>\n

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\nRoy Cooper, governor of North Carolina<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pete Buttigieg Pete Buttigieg, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, was in the backwater city of Winston-Salem yesterday for the groundbreaking on a small project backed by the Department of Transportation — a $4.8 million pathway for bicycles and pedestrians that will link downtown with the city’s medical center. That’s small potatoes as transportation projects go. … Continue reading “Good government gets little attention”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28844"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28860,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28844\/revisions\/28860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}