Month: March 2017

London Bridge might actually be falling down. No, this isn't a nursery rhyme. According to the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), of the 8,154 bridges across the state, 214 are structurally poor. This includes the well-known London Bridge of Lake Havasu City, which has been deemed "functionally obsolete." So what does this mean? According to Mark Clark, the maintenance services division manager for the city, it means that the bridge isn't up to the same safety code that it would be if it was built today. “It’s not something you would say is inherently unsafe, either from a structural or safety standpoint; it’s doing its job, it’s just not doing its job as well as it would if it was engineered to the newest safety or design standards," Clark explained to Havasu News. The culpr...

In Arizona, a senior advocacy group is speaking out against proposals in Congress that would have a huge impact on health care expenses for seniors. Today, the average total cost for medical expenses for a 65-year-old couple is about $218,000 over a 20-year period. According to the AARP, Arizona seniors should expect that number to rise if the Republican replacement to the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) is passed into law. The new "repeal and replace" proposal has been called both Ryancare and Trumpcare, and it has drawn intense opposition from all across the political spectrum. AARP Arizona recently launched a campaign to oppose Speaker Paul Ryan's health care plans, which would provide seniors with a fixed monthly subsidy to purchase health coverage. The AARP pr...