Public Roads

2020 ◽  
pp. 277-280
Author(s):  
Danny M. Adkison ◽  
Lisa McNair Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
The State ◽  
Sovereign Immunity ◽  
The Public ◽  
State Highway ◽  
Governmental Function ◽  
Highway System

This chapter discusses Article XVI of the Oklahoma constitution, which concerns public roads. Building and maintaining a state highway system is a mandatory governmental function over which the state enjoys “sovereign immunity.” Section 1 states that “the Legislature is directed to establish a Department of Highways, and shall have the power to create improvement districts and provide for building and maintaining public roads, and may provide for the utilization of convict and punitive labor thereon.” Section 2 clarifies that the state does not attempt to preempt the federal government’s actions and rights with regard to the public highways. It also assures that this provision was not intended to take away the rights of a Native American tribe. Section 3 gives the legislature broad powers to use its discretion to make, and to generate money for, a system of levees, drains, and irrigation ditches. The state may pay for such items through taxation.

Interpreting Cellular Coverage for Transportation Applications

2003 ◽  
Vol 1826 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-36
Author(s):  
Scott Walton ◽  
Eric Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Signal Strength ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Moving Vehicle ◽  
State Highway ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Coverage Analysis ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Transportation Applications ◽  
Highway System

The process was developed for collecting and analyzing cellular coverage data by applying the results of analysis to analog cellular coverage in the state of Kansas. The type of analysis that is appropriate depends on the purpose for which the information is to be used. Two types of analyses were examined—fixed coverage and mobile coverage. Fixed coverage analysis is needed for such functions as automatic collision notification in which any individual cellular connection can occur from a fixed location. The study showed that the fixed cellular coverage of the Kansas state highway system was good. Only 0.4% of the highway by length had inadequate signal strength for using a 3-W phone (a typical car phone) and 1.7% for using a 0.6-W phone (a typical handheld unit). In contrast, the mobile coverage analysis identified numerous areas where a call from a moving vehicle would be severely limited in duration. This type of analysis is needed for applications such as communications for emergency medical services, for which a vehicle must sustain continuous communications. For example, more than 9% of the state highways by length cannot sustain a call of 30 min with a 0.6-W phone, and in some areas the percentage is considerably higher. For certain applications, this difference may simply translate to inconvenience, but for other purposes it can be very important. The results of the two types of analyses highlight different characteristics of the coverage footprint; one addresses absolute coverage and the other continuity of coverage. The results of the analysis technique relate more directly to the unique characteristics of wireless communications utilization in transportation applications.

scholarly journals Inangahua earthquake 1968

1969 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
J. S. Douglas
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
State Highway ◽  
May 1968 ◽  
Highway System

Many years of difficult and costly work on improving and sealing the state highway system in the Inangahua and Buller Gorge areas was virtually ruined in a few seconds by the earthquake of 24 May 1968.

scholarly journals Inangahua earthquake 1968

1968 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-60
Author(s):  
J. S. Douglas
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
State Highway ◽  
May 1968 ◽  
Highway System

Many years of difficult and costly work on improving and sealing the state highway system in the Inangahua and Duller Gorge areas was virtually ruined in a few seconds by the earthquake of 24 May 1968.

Is economic inequality a universal evil?

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rostislav I. Kapeliushnikov
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
The State ◽  
Fair Play ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The Public ◽  
Discursive Power ◽  
A Current

Using published estimates of inequality for two countries (Russia and USA) the paper demonstrates that inequality measuring still remains in the state of “statistical cacophony”. Under this condition, it seems at least untimely to pass categorical normative judgments and offer radical political advice for governments. Moreover, the mere practice to draw normative conclusions from quantitative data is ethically invalid since ordinary people (non-intellectuals) tend to evaluate wealth and incomes as admissible or inadmissible not on the basis of their size but basing on whether they were obtained under observance or violations of the rules of “fair play”. The paper concludes that a current large-scale ideological campaign of “struggle against inequality” has been unleashed by left-wing intellectuals in order to strengthen even more their discursive power over the public.

Rewriting the Narrative

2019 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 54-77
Author(s):  
Nicolas G. Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Native American ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Art Scene ◽  
The 1960S

A vibrant American Indian art scene developed in California from the 1960s to the 1980s, with links to a broader indigenous arts movement. Native American artists working in the state produced and exhibited paintings, prints, sculptures, mixed media, and other art forms that validated and documented their cultures, interpreted their history, asserted their survival, and explored their experiences in modern society. Building on recent scholarship that examines American Indian migration, urbanization, and activism in the twentieth century, this article charts these developments and argues that American Indian artists in California challenged and rewrote dominant historical narratives by foregrounding Native American perspectives in their work.

Settler Colonialism and the Revolutionary War

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-35
Author(s):  
Andrea Lynn Smith
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Revolutionary War ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
150Th Anniversary ◽  
End Point ◽  
Indian Land ◽  
Indian Relations ◽  
Major General

The centerpiece of New York State’s 150th anniversary of the Sullivan Expedition of 1779 was a pageant, the “Pageant of Decision.” Major General John Sullivan’s Revolutionary War expedition was designed to eliminate the threat posed by Iroquois allied with the British. It was a genocidal operation that involved the destruction of over forty Indian villages. This article explores the motivations and tactics of state officials as they endeavored to engage the public in this past in pageant form. The pageant was widely popular, and served the state in fixing the expedition as the end point in settler-Indian relations in New York, removing from view decades of expropriations of Indian land that occurred well after Sullivan’s troops left.

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