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Well, clean water is worth paying for. Excepting persons on public assistance, looking around cities today we see plenty of people with disposable income. Things cost money, and people who benefit from those things have a right to the dignity and responsibility to pay for them. I certainly hope utilities ...

I realize it's an election year so the incumbent party in power is no doubt proud to assert that corporate profits have never been higher than on their watch, but I don't quite see why high profits is a negative for infrastructure. Large company employees and stockholders-such as me, through mutual funds ...

What a divide between the academy and the real world. The recovery from the software outage shows just how resilient our internet we've built undeniably is. And I should hope companies are rewarded for profitability, rather than the opposite. If companies weren't profitable, then naturally government ...

From what I can tell on the NCEES site, examinees select one civil sub-discipline at the start of the exam. Long ago when I took the exam in the 1990s the outcome impact was not much different. The afternoon exam presented about a dozen questions from all sub-disciplines and we chose several. In fact, ...

I think this post misses the point entirely. The purpose for board certification is to enhance the value of engineering to society. Certification has nothing, whatsoever, at all, to do with being entitled to more money. Plenty of practicing engineers make more money than I do and they're not board-certified ...