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A Policy Approach to Critical Infrastructure — Fix on Failure

Deferring maintenance is the first choice of most governments.

Our nation's infrastructure is crumbling, and the recent recession caused by the coronavirus will not help. Inaction at all levels of government has put us in this predicament and there is no end in sight.

See this op-ed I penned for the Puget Sound Business Journal, "Opinion: If we wait for infrastructure to fail before fixing, it'll be too late."

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.