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You can tell a lot about the inherent biases and assumptions of the state’s media by their opinion columnists. Most of them are deeply conservative people. I don’t mean that in an ideological sense, but in an attitudinal sense. They are usually not interested at all in change, and instead look on it skeptically. This [...]
One of the common anti-high speed rail arguments is that nobody will ride trains because they can fly cheaply between cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles. Since at least 2008 we’ve known these cheap fares weren’t going to last long. This week brings more evidence that cheap flights are becoming an endangered species, in [...]
Florida Republican John Mica, who chairs the House Transportation Committee, has spent most of 2011 pushing a plan to privatize the Northeast Corridor, home to the profitable Amtrak Acela. Yesterday he made a surprising flip-flop and now is willing to let Amtrak keep the NEC: But the big news was the change in Mica’s attitude [...]
(See below for Kevin Drum’s response, which is also the first comment to the post. He submitted the comment late Monday night, but I wasn’t able to approve it until Wednesday morning.) Kevin Drum, the Orange County-based political blogger for Mother Jones, last week chose to trash HSR without even making a close look at [...]
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