The Price of Feedom
“What else is new; it’s New Jersey. Raise fees, that’s all we do.”
—Sean Tomlin, of Millville, New Jersey, commenting on dozens of proposed fee hikes for motor vehicle operators in the Garden State. The Motor Vehicle Commission is proposing some 40 fee hikes in all. They vote on the measure May 26.
NYC Collapse
“(T)he bricks started trickling off the top corner. I was thinking it was raining or something. Then within 10 seconds it just all came down like a wave or an avalanche.”
—Lewis Largent, who lives directly across the street from a five-story building in Lower Manhattan that collapsed earlier this month. Inspectors from the Buildings Department were at the scene, about seven blocks north of the World Trade Center site. The collapse sheared off the front half of the building, exposed interior floors and covered nearby vehicles in rubble.
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