August 1, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Seattle Post-Intelligencer posted the following editorial on its website on August 1.) SEATTLE — The Bush Domestic Doctrine can be boiled down to this: Take a federal program — any federal program — and claim that it will run better, more...
August 1, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Billings Gazette posted the following story by Ted Monoson on its website on August 1.) BILLINGS, Mont. — The Bush administration’s proposal to overhaul Amtrak is being panned by Montana Sens. Conrad Burns and Max Baucus. Baucus, a Democrat, sent a...
August 1, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(United Press International circulated the following story on July 31.) WHITE FISH, Mont. — Gov. Judy Martz vowed Thursday to go to bat for the Empire Builder, the cross-country Amtrak train provideing Montana with its only passenger rail service. Martz chairs...
August 1, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Albuquerque Tribune posted the following story by Frank Zoretich on its website on August 1.) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The plan President Bush sent to Congress this week for the reorganization of Amtrak passenger rail service over the next six years is...
July 31, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Baltimore Sun published the following editorial on its website on July 31.) BALTIMORE – The Bush Administration s plan for restructuring Amtrak is wrong in so many ways that it’s hard to know what to focus on. But here are two of the more bone-headed...
July 31, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on July 31.) PHILADELPHIA — Critics of a Bush administration plan to privatize Amtrak say the proposal would effectively kill the passenger railway system by shifting its costs to the states, which say they...
July 31, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Reuters distributed the following article by Peter Kaplan on July 30.) WASHINGTON — Only two days after the Bush administration outlined plans to cut direct federal funding of Amtrak, the idea ran into resistance from senators who say the railroad needs more...
July 31, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following article by Don Phillips appeared in the Washington Post on July 31.) WASHINGTON — Amtrak is again facing a budget showdown this fall that could place the national passenger railroad in a severe financial squeeze, even as the Bush administration...
July 30, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Boston Globe published the following editorial on its website on July 30.) BOSTON — The only positive thing to be said about the Bush administration’s latest attempt to have Congress dismantle Amtrak is that it just might get legislators to talk...
July 30, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The News Journal published the following story by Murali Balaji on its website on July 30.) WILMINGTON, Del. — The government corporation would retain the Amtrak name, while the other two companies would not. President Bush’s plan to divide Amtrak into...
