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Scorecard: What Election 2010 Means for Transportation around the Nation
(Alex Goldmark, Transportation Nation) Democrats lost big on Tuesday, and it was only a tad better for alternative transportation. The fate of several high speed rail plans around the country are now...
View ArticleTN Moving Stories: Election Outcome Stops HSR Work in Wisconsin, Top Int'l...
Outgoing Wisconsin governor halts work on its high-speed rail line "temporarily" after rail opponent Scott Walker's victory in the governor's race (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). Walker repeated his vow...
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Wisconsin Halts Construction of High Speed Rail Project after Anti-Rail...
Rendering of Milwaukee's proposed intermodal station. (Alex Goldmark, Transportation Nation) Contractors in Wisconsin received a one line email telling them to stop work on high-speed rail...
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Wisconsin Governor Doyle Explains Why He's Shut Down Rail Project He Supports
Last week Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle, an adamant rail supporter, suddenly stopped all work on his state's high speed rail projects. He did it because Governor-elect Scott Walker has said he plans to...
View ArticleTN Moving Stories: A Birds-Eye View of the Marathon, LaHood Threatens to Pull...
Ray LaHood's "congratulatory" phone call to Wisconsin's governor-elect, Scott Walker, involved threatening to yank $810 million in stimulus money if Mr. Walker doesn't soften his opposition to a...
View ArticleTN Moving Stories: Unintended Consequences of the Tarmac Rule, NJ Transit Not...
Wisconsin gov-elect Scott Walker's response to Ray LaHood: fix roads before you build rail. Also, some friendly advice: "All across the country, in states like Wisconsin, Ohio and Florida, the voters...
View ArticleTN Moving Stories: LaHood Harshes On Street Sign Overhaul, NJ Reacts to FTA...
NJ politicians react to FTA's demand that the state repay $271 million in canceled ARC funds. One report says that Gov. Christie has lawyered up and plans to file a lawsuit to fight the bill; another...
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New GOP Party Chief Not a High Speed Rail Fan
Reince Priebus, Newly Elected RNC Chairman (Getty Images)(Andrea Bernstein, Transportation Nation) The new head of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, is no fan of high speed rail....
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Obama: 80 Percent of Americans Should Have Access to High Speed Rail By 2036
(Washington, DC -- Andrea Bernstein, Transportation Nation) In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama is calling for what aids are calling "an upfront investment" in 2011 so that by...
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Obama heads to Wisconsin (!)
mock-up of the Milwaukee high-speed rail station(Andrea Bernstein, Transportation Nation) It caught our eye that -- a day after proposing a vast increase in high speed rail -- President Obama is...
View ArticleWisconsin State Senators Skip Town To Delay Vote on Public Employee Bill
Amid a veritable thunderstorm of union opposition to a bill proposed by Gov. Scott Walker, the 14 Democrats in the Wisconsin State Senate have gone off the grid in a ploy to avoid a vote on a...
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Timeline: What's Happening in Wisconsin?
A lot can happen in a week, especially in a state that's trying to balance its budget by asking for historic concessions from public employees.Last Friday in Wisconsin, Republican Gov. Scott Walker...
View ArticleIf This is the New Normal...
Tens of thousands of Americans gather in the streets of Madison, prompting solidarity rallies around the country as they defend the rights of workers. Big banks, having received record bailouts,...
View ArticleNew Jersey's Dueling Rallies
There will be dueling rallies in Trenton on Friday, both connected to the rumble in Wisconsin. The New Jersey State AFL-CIO is expecting to bring out 4,000 to 5,000 people in solidarity with union...
View ArticleWisconsin Democrats Launch Recall Effort Against Republican Senators
It just keeps escalating. Today is the deadline by which Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has threatened to lay off 1500 state workers if the Democratic state senators don’t come back to work.Now the...
View ArticleGovernor Walker's Game of Chicken
Wisconsin's Governor Scott Walker has officially threatened to lay off some 1500 state employees if he can't get Democratic state senators to return and allow a vote on the Governor's much-disputed...
View ArticleThis Week in Politics, from Wisconsin to Libya
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country, we bring you the unmissable quotes from the morning's political conversations on WNYC. Today on The Brian Lehrer Show, Jonathan...
View ArticleWhen CEOs Become Politicians
A huge airplane with TRUMP splattered on the side landed in Des Moines Monday. The Donald was not on board. No doubt too busy yelling "You're Fired!" at some of his peeps. His right-hand-man was...
View ArticlePolitics of Destruction and Distraction in Wisconsin
"We need to end collective bargaining because of our state’s budget crisis. Oh, the unions have agreed to concessions that would ease our budget woes? Then we need to end collective bargaining because...
View ArticleWisc. Judge Temporarily Blocks New Collective Bargaining Law
A Wisconsin circuit judge has issued a temporary restraining order that bars the publication a new law that effectively ends collective bargaining for state workers, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is...
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