City plans to take on debt to cover billions in infrastructure repairs

The Stars and Stripes on the flagpole at the front of the Johnson Space Center is enormous, as you’d expect from a major American institution. I had been at Johnson for a couple of days, as a reporter covering the shuttle flight of Canadian astronaut Steve MacLean, and I remember being struck by the sheer size of the place – some 100 buildings on more than 1,600 acres of land.