All posts tagged "Bridge"

Newt Gingrich is getting torched online for trying to score political points by tearing down President Joe Biden's vow to "move heaven and earth" to rebuild Baltimore's toppled Francis Scott Key Bridge.

"Why would President Biden promise to pay to rebuild the Baltimore bridge when the insurance companies are responsible," the former House Speaker posted on Twitter/X. "Why add a billion dollars to U.S. debt when the big insurance companies exist for precisely this purpose?"

"Is there no idea too dumb for the Biden team to embrace?"...

A reporter covering New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's new plan to prevent trucks striking bridges was stunned after she traveled to a common problem bridge — and happened to catch a truck striking the bridge at that exact moment.

"As I'm working on a story ... I got video of a truck crashing into this bridge on Young Street in the City of Tonawanda," wrote WKBW's Kristen Mirand on X.

The video clearly showed a truck without the proper clearance trying to pass under the bridge, and the top being sheared off the truck, sending bits of metal flying everywhere behind it....

Marina Sitrin, an attorney who is part of the "Occupy Wall Street" legal working group, told Amy Goodman of Democracy Now on Monday that New York Police officers were conducting mass arrests in hopes of suppressing the ongoing protest.