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Action Alert: Don’t shop Kroger
(The Working Families e-Activist Network issued the following Action Alert on January 26.) Dear Working Families e-Activist: Since mid-October, 70,000 grocery workers have courageously kept up the picket lines in Southern California. These brave workers are holding...
Clergy get involved in grocery strike
(The following story by Nicholas Grudin appeared on the Long Beach Press Telegram website on January 27.) LONG BEACH, Calif. -- A host of priests, rabbis, pastors and bishops will join union leaders and striking grocery clerks today on a "justice pilgrimage' to the...
Judge rejects lawsuit seeking reparations
(The following story by James Cox appeared on the USA Today website on January 26.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A federal judge in Chicago on Monday dealt a blow to the reparations movement by dismissing a lawsuit against 18 banks, insurers, railroads and tobacco companies...
New system turns radio messages from the locomotive into shipment-tracking data for managers, customers
(The following story by Bob Brewin appeared on the ComputerWorld website on January 26.) FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Any casual shipper can tap into a FedEx or UPS Web site and determine the location of even the smallest of packages. But until recently, The Burlington...
Amtrak offers students, parents deal on travel
(The Indianapolis Star posted the following story on its website on January 27.) AMTRAK -- High school juniors and seniors can travel for free on Amtrak to visit colleges when accompanied by a full-fare-paying parent or guardian, under its Campus Visit discount...
New statistics show timeliness of Amtrak trains improves
(The following story by Jeff McCready appeared on The Tribune-Democrat website on January 26.) JOHNSTOWN, Pa. -- Amtrak's timeliness is improving. "It is much, much better," said David Scott of Brownstown, who routinely takes the train from Johnstown to New York....
Wi-Fi rides into Amtrak rail stations
(The following article by Dawn Kawamoto of CNET News.com was posted on the New York Times website on January 26.) NEW YORK -- Amtrak is expanding its Wi-Fi service to six Northeastern U.S. train stations, in a move to attract more business travelers. The rail company...
Report: Trains would cost less, be better for Calif. environment
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by Steve Lawrence on January 27.) LOS ANGELES -- A high-speed rail system linking California's major cities would be less than half as expensive and more environmentally friendly than building out highways and...
From passengers to freight, rail lines carry on in Colorado
(The following story by Kit Miniclier appeared on the Denver Post website on January 27.) DENVER -- Railroads developed the West three generations ago. A century ago, about 80 passenger trains a day visited Denver's Union Station. Today, only Amtrak's eastbound and...
Council considers litigation against BNSF
(The following story by James Quirk Jr. appeared on the Hawk Eye website on January 27.) BURLINGTON, Iowa -- Whether to take the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad to court will be discussed by the City Council in a closed 4:30 p.m. meeting today. Proponents hope...
