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UPDATE
Here is an MSNBC article in which you can search the number of "deficient" bridges by state. h/t Terre
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
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Although we in Minnesota are all still in shock, and finishing our remaining phone calls from friends around the country checking to see if we were alright, and comparing stories with neighbors and friends about where we were when it happened and when was the last time we were on the bridge, we are also opening our eyes and minds to what caused this tragedy. Of course, as with many tragedies, there is not one particular cause to this, but a series of mis-steps, of people ignoring warning signs, of mistakes made, of budgets cut.
So today, in our Star Tribune newspaper, among the pages upon pages of photos and personal stories, there was an article by Nick Coleman, one of the contributing opinion journalists, who summed it up so perfectly and succinctly, of how this could possibly have happened, that I thought I would share. It's not the whole commentary, but I just thought this particular portion summed everything up so perfectly:
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