David A. Frye
As seen in:
Medium,
TIME,
Rolling Stone,
Chicago Sun-Times,
Yahoo,
Connecticut Magazine,
Guernica Mag,
Kirkus Reviews,
History News Network,
Herald & Review
and
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by David A. Frye
Upgrade Illinois' power lines to keep lights on as energy demands rise Original
Illinois is facing a looming energy crisis. As the state strives for a cleaner, more reliable electric grid in the face of rising demand and a growing economy, we can choose to meet the moment with the homegrown clean power we know we need, or we can fail to invest in the infrastructure to support our communities. The men and women of the Laborers’ International Union of North America Midwest Region are the best-trained workers in the industry, and they are ready to build our clean energy future.
GUEST VIEW: The solution is in your hands
By David A. Frye It’s time to be honest with you. You’re the problem. Every year about this time we warn you, the motoring public, that highway work is beginning across the country. State Police, State Departments of Transportation, workers, Unions, OSHA, and more; we produce public service announcements and billboards and newspaper ads begging you to be alert, slow down, and drop the phone in work zones. Yet, every year the number of fatalities in work zones increases.
The Solution is in Your Hands
By David A. Frye, Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) Vice President and Midwest Regional Manager It’s time to be honest with you. You’re the problem. Every year about this time we warn you, the motoring public, that highway work is beginning across the country.
OPINION: The Infrastructure Decade
By DAVID A. FRYE Vice President Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) There are no such things as “Republican bridges” or “Democratic roads,” but there is an undeniable difference between cheap talk and real results. When Joe Biden was elected President, he didn’t have ceremonial “infrastructure weeks” without ever doing anything about infrastructure, and he didn’t just talk about Making America Great (Again) – he got to work making it happen. And happen it did.
David A. Frye: Infrastructure act has long-lasting importance
There are no such things as “Republican bridges” or “Democratic roads,” but there is an undeniable difference between cheap talk and real results. When Joe Biden was elected President, he didn’t have ceremonial “infrastructure weeks” without ever doing anything about infrastructure, and he didn’t just talk about Making America Great (Again) – he got to work making it happen. And happen it did.
The Berlin Wall Is a Reminder That Barriers Last Only As Long as the Political Will to Defend Them
In retrospect, the Wall didn’t last especially long. Twenty-eight years—roughly the span of our youth—and then it was gone: broken into chunks, carted away as souvenirs, placed on mantles and shelves, displayed like a trophy of some cherished victory we had all somehow won together. For those who needed additional reminders, the Wall was turned into refrigerator magnets and paper weights. But how could we forget it? For nearly three decades, the Berlin Wall figured in our culture.
Connecticut Authors Explore the History of Walls, an Elevated Murder Mystery and a Hollywood Biography
A Breath After Drowning by Alice Blanchard Titan Books, 443 pages, 2019 New Haven resident and Middletown native Alice Blanchard’s previous books have earned more than their fair share of awards and praise. Marilyn Stasio of The New York Times wrote, “Blanchard writes so well that even her quiet descriptions of desolate towns and lonely people are good enough to rattle the rafters.” There are definitely more than a few rafters rattled in Blanchard’s latest offering, her first in nearly a decade.
Six Historians on Why Trump’s Border Wall Won’t Work
President Trump’s promise to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border was a defining and divisive talking point throughout the 2016 campaign, rallying his conservative base enough to help win him the election. In trying to fulfill one of his most popular campaign promises, President Trump has halted the U.S. government in the longest federal shutdown in the country’s history, demanding more than $5 billion in funding for a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Walls Don’t Just Keep People Out
David Frye is the author of Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick. ... The first walls made possible a revolution in human society. We might call it the Civilian Revolution — that moment in each community when the majority of males chose to devote their lives to things other than warfare. Having become civilians, they took up the kind of tasks that civilians take up. They became farmers, bricklayers, weavers, merchants and scribes.
Walls Don’t Just Keep People Out. History Shows They Also Change the People Inside
It’s August, which means another Purge movie is out. They tend to pop up every July, like weeds in a midsummer garden, sprouting and dropping seeds for another sequel before they die. The franchise chronicles a dystopian plan to reduce violence by allowing everyone to participate in an annual festival of crime. But though the latest addition to the series is called The First Purge, real-life governments have been scheming to reduce violence for centuries.
Walls Don’t Just Keep People Out. History Shows They Also Change the People Inside
It’s August, which means another Purge movie is out. They tend to pop up every July, like weeds in a midsummer garden, sprouting and dropping seeds for another sequel before they die. The franchise chronicles a dystopian plan to reduce violence by allowing everyone to participate in an annual festival of crime. But though the latest addition to the series is called The First Purge, real-life governments have been scheming to reduce violence for centuries.
The History of Civilization Is a History of Border Walls
When I joined my first archaeological dig at a site near Hadrian’s Wall in 2002, walls never appeared in the nightly news. Britain was still many years away from planning a barrier near the opening of the Chunnel in Calais. Saudi Arabia hadn’t yet encircled itself with high-tech barricades. Israel hadn’t started reinforcing its Gaza border fence with concrete. Kenya wasn’t seeking Israel’s help in the construction of a 440-mile barrier against Somalia.
Signed First Edition - A History of the World in 21 Women - JENNI MURRAY
All delivery times quoted are the average, and cannot be guaranteed. These should be added to the availability message time, to determine when the goods will arrive. During checkout we will give you a cumulative estimated date for delivery. If you are not completely satisfied with your purchase*, you may return it to us in its original condition with in 30 days of receiving your delivery or collection notification email for a refund.
Walls
For thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them. Great Walls have appeared on nearly every continent, the handiwork of people from Persia, Rome, China, Central America, and beyond. They have accompanied the rise of cities, nations, and empires. And yet they rarely appear in our history books.
A Planet for Rent
The cybertaxi pulled up at the astroport entrance. Lifting the hatch, Buca extracted her long legs from the cab. Right leg first, then left. Then she straightened up with studied lassitude, hewing to her motto: Always be sensual. Selshaliman imitated her on the other side, and she envied his naturally dignified movements. With their shiny, grayish chitin exoskeletons, Grodos had the rigid look of men wearing medieval armor. And majesty, plenty of it. But Grodos also had their advantages.
SUPER EXTRA GRANDE
A lighthearted space-opera adventure by Cuban author Yoss (A Planet for Rent, 2015, etc.). At 7 feet and 11 inches tall, Dr. Jan Amos Sangan Dongo is a very large man. He’s not handicapped by his size, though.
FRYE: Asking Congress to fix our roads - News and Tribune: Opinion
Indiana leaders have been in the news lately for eyeing state reserves as a possible funding source to help maintain our thousands of miles of roads. We’ve also started to see coverage of the Congressional debate relating to the federal Highway Trust Fund, the primary source of funding for federal road, bridge, and transit spending.
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with David A.
Contact David A., search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack