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SunRail backers turn their eyes to D.C.
(The following article by Dan Tracy and Mark Matthews appeared on the Orlando Sentinel website on December 14, 2009.) ORLANDO, Fla. — SunRail was banished to a side track in May when the state Senate voted down the Central Florida commuter train. Everything was...
Guns on trains makes strange bedfellows on spending bill
(The following story by Bill Thompson appeared on the Ocala Star-Banner website on December 15, 2009.) OCALA, Fla. — Anyone who wonders why politics cannot be as ideologically pure as conservative Tea Party advocates or liberal Moveon.org sympathizers might hope can...
NY judge drops most charges in rail pension case
(The Associated Press circulated the following on December 14, 2009.) MINEOLA, N.Y. — A New York judge has dismissed most of a 53-count indictment against a longtime Long Island Rail Road employee linked to a disability pension scandal. Defense attorney William...
Railroad shares mixed at the close of Dec. 14 trading
(The Associated Press circulated the following on December 14, 2009.) NEW YORK — Shares of some top railroads companies were mixed at the close of trading: Burlington Northern fell $.04 or percent, to $98.54. CSX rose $.42 or .9 percent, to $49.36. Canadian National...
Florida governor to sign rail bill in Tampa, 3 other cities
(The following story by Ted Jackovics appeared on The Tampa Tribune website on December 14, 2009.) TAMPA, Fla. — Gov. Charlie Crist is scheduled to sign Florida's rail legislation bill that won legislative approval last week at multiple events Wednesday in Tampa,...
DOT Secretary says pancakes got her attention
(The following story by Dara Kam appeared on the Palm Beach Post website on December 14, 2009.) PALM BEACH, Fla. — Florida Department of Transportation Secretary Stephanie Kopelousos said that the word “pancake” in the subject line of an e-mail from her deputy Kevin...
Florida DOT officials should resign over coded emails
(The following story by Keith Laing appeared on the Lakeland Ledger website on December 15, 2009.) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Amid newspaper reports that high-ranking state transportation officials coded e-mails about the rail bill passed in the recently completed special...
‘Wafflegate’: SunRail critics say email subject lines were an attempt to dodge public-records requests
(The following story by Aaron Deslatte appeared on the Orlando Sentinel website on December 14, 2009.) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — SunRail critics are calling it "Wafflegate." To Florida Department of Transportation administrators, it was just a cute attempt to keep things...
Rockefeller advances draft version of STB reauthorization bill in Senate
(The following story by Jeff Stagl appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on December 14, 2009.) On December 15, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) plans to file a draft version of the long-awaited Surface Transportation Board (STB) reauthorization bill crafted...
Congress funds high speed, rail, Amtrak, NMB in latest budget bill
(The following story by Kathryn A. Wolfe appeared on the Congressional Quarterly website on December 14, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Efforts to create a national high-speed rail network would get a big boost under the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development...
