[unixfox]

But the city is too broke to replace many of the aging pipes and repave its roads as it deals with ongoing budget woes and the looming threat of bankruptcy, according to media reports.

Maybe they should have thought about that before they blew all of the taxpayers money on other "significant" projects.

[fatrat]

I think they inherited their problems from the Republican administration around 1902, wasn’t that the last time a republican was in charge?

[trebb]

Amazing that they can’t afford to fix these obvious slaps at the EPA and we don’t see any heavy-handed law suits being levied. If an average citizen had such discrepancies, they would be in debtor’s prison just for the interest on the fines...