November 21, 2005 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following editorial by Jon Talton was posted on the Arizona Republic website on November 20.) TUCSON, Ariz. — On the same day that senators were hurling their telegenic outrage at profiteering oil executives, Amtrak’s president was fired for being too...
November 21, 2005 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following article by Robert Cohen was posted on the Newark Star-Ledger website on November 21.) WASHINGTON — As chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission under then-Gov. George W. Bush in the late 1990s, David Laney was credited with significantly...
November 18, 2005 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following article by Andrea Hahn was posted on the Southern Illinoisian website on November 18.) CARBONDALE, Ill. — A small fire that damaged an electronic panel at the Carbondale Amtrak station won’t impact holiday travel, an Amtrak spokesman said...
November 18, 2005 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following editorial by Michael S. Dukakis and John Robert Smith was posted on the Boston Globe website on November 18.) BOSTON — If the Hurricane Katrina fiasco has taught us anything, it is that there is no substitute for competence at the top of important...
November 18, 2005 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following article by Patrick McGeehan was posted on the New York Times website on November 18.) NEW YORK — Norman Y. Mineta, the secretary of transportation, came to New York yesterday to talk about Amtrak, and though he certainly did not praise the...
November 18, 2005 | Amtrak, DOT, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by Deepti Hajela on November 17.) NEW YORK — The board of Amtrak is looking for a new president to turn the troubled railroad around, not dismantle it, Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta said...
November 17, 2005 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following article by Beth Dickey was posted on GovExec.com on November 17.) WASHINGTON — Amtrak’s board of directors “had no choice” but to fire the president of the government-subsidized passenger railroad, Chairman David Laney told...
November 16, 2005 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following article by Don Phillips was posted on the International Herald Tribune website on November 16.) PARIS — Nowhere in the world do the railroaders who supervise and run freight trains and those who operate passenger trains truly get along well....
November 16, 2005 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following article by Matthew L. Wald was posted on the New York Times website on November 15.) WASHINGTON — Days after Amtrak’s board of directors fired the railroad’s president, the chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees Amtrak said...
November 16, 2005 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on November 15.) WASHINGTON — Amtrak supporters in Congress on Tuesday questioned whether the railroad’s board had the authority to fire David Gunn as president last week and said he should be...
