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• Czar Mitch Landrieu and others need help cutting red tape

  By Quin Hillyer / 28 February 2023

  

  (Feb. 26, NOLA.com)  Mitch Landrieu, the former mayor of New Orleans who now is the White House “infrastructure czar,” said words in an interview the other day that desperately need […]

   

• Mitch Landrieu is decent choice to oversee infrastructure

  By Quin Hillyer / 23 November 2021

  

  (Nov. 15) All things considered, President Joe Biden’s appointment of Louisianan Mitch Landrieu as infrastructure coordinator at the White House is pretty solid. Conservatives may not like that Landrieu, who […]

   

• This infrastructure bill is bad. It deserved to be buried.

  By Quin Hillyer / 9 August 2021

  

  (August 3) The Senate infrastructure bill spends too much money, adding too much debt, for too many unnecessary projects while using too many budgetary gimmicks to claim it is “paid […]

   

• After Democrats’ double-cross, GOP should kill infrastructure deal

  By Quin Hillyer / 29 June 2021

  

  (Official Washington Examiner editorial, June 28) Democratic leaders are engaging in a cynical bait-and-switch in a “deal” on a federal infrastructure bill. Every Republican in the Senate, including those who […]

   

• American politics must regain moderation

  By Quin Hillyer / 20 June 2021

  

  (June 16) Consider this a plea for a return to non-tribalist reasonableness, moderation, and decency. News item: Ultraliberal Democrats say they won’t vote for federal “infrastructure” legislation because it doesn’t […]