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The late Mike Royko, a Chicago columnist, Cubs' fan and softball player, once wrote that he believed Chicago's motto should be changed from "Urbs in horto" (City in a garden) to "Ubi est mea?" or "Where's mine?" Recent events locally and nationally have reminded me that Royko's tongue-in-cheek motto might serve very well for the entire nation, not just one large city.
On a recent evening's news, a group of individuals were staging a media event on an expressway overpass. The TV news used a sound bite from a trucking representative describing how the highway system has been "raided" to take funds for other uses and that's why the roads are in terrible shape. I muttered something to myself about the hammering this guy's trucks give the roads, then...