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We Beat the Robber Barons Before. We Will Do It Again

Let's make them look as ridiculous as their talking points sound.

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Dr. Stephanie Lovely
Feb 18, 2026
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Just a few hundred feet from a bustling river-adjacent greenway, a local resident explained just how remarkable its success truly was. He marveled at how far his city’s relationship had come with its waterway, and his eyes grew large as he said, “I mean for years it was used essentially as a sewer. No one wanted to go near it.”

The subtext was somethin…

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