(Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, August 7, 2013)
IRVING, Texas — Former Texas Rangers baseball club President and prominent Fort Worth lawyer Tom Schieffer has agreed to join the effort to bring high-speed rail to North Texas, officials say.
Schieffer, whose résumé also includes stints as U.S. ambassador to Japan and Australia, is joining Texas Central Railway as a senior or strategic adviser, several people attending the Texas Transportation and Infrastructure Summit in Irving said Wednesday.
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