Monday, February 16, 2015

Silver Spring Transit Center deja vu?

Anyone old enough to remember, in 1973, when the US Attorney for the District of Maryland investigated then Vice President (under Nixon) Spiro Agnew on charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery, and conspiracy, while Agnew was Baltimore County Executive and Governor of Maryland, can't help but wonder if it's deja vu with the Silver Spring Transit Center.
But then, if nobody (news media, US Attorney, etc.) looks into how and why Montgomery County non-competitively (public-private partnership) selected private engineer Parsons Brinkerhoff, private builder Foulger Pratt and private concrete inspector Balter Co. for the publicly funded Silver Spring Transit Center, when most private companies are selected competitively for publicly funded projects, then I guess that we'll never know.

Where are you, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein?

Where are you, Archibald Cox, Elliot Richardson and William Ruckelshaus?



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