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  REPUBLICANS ARE SO BEREFT OF QUALIFIED, COMPETENT CANDIDATES, THOSE WHO ARE RUNNING HAVE NEVER BEEN ELECTED TO PUBLIC OFFICE. THAT DEFINES THE MASS GOP.  Brown faces Keating in congressional race this November: What to expect Zane Razzaq  Cape Cod Times  Republican Jesse Brown is taking on U.S. Rep. William R. "Bill" Keating in a race on the November ballot to represent the 9th District in Congress. As he turns an eye to the general election, Brown said "economy, economy, economy" will take center stage. People across the U.S. are experiencing higher prices for gas, energy, food and more and it's exacerbated by "reckless spending" in Congress, said Brown, 43, of Plymouth. "It's a simple thing: it's a free-for-all, it's an open pocketbook, and we need fiscally conservative people in Washington who will curtail that," said Brown, a Marine Corps veteran and co-founder of Heidrea Communications. While on the campaign trail, Keating,...

  Will federal grant loss derail plans to rebuild Bourne and Sagamore bridges? Cape congressman says no  Asad Jung Cape Cod Times Published Sept 24, 2022  In 2020, Massachusetts Department of Transportation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officially joined forces to work together to replace the aging Bourne and Sagamore bridges.   Since then, the two organizations have been going after federal funding to cover the costs of replacing the bridges,  which has risen to around $4 billion due to inflation. It was originally supposed to cost around $1.5 billion .  Last week, however, the federal government dealt a blow to those efforts when it denied the Army Corps’ application for INFRA — officially, Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight and Highway Projects — grant money, one of two bids to secure more than $1 billion, according to the State House News Service.  More: Sagamore, Bourne bridges have brought prosperity, loyalty and now worri...