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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 [...]
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is out with a new study titled “High Speed Rail: International Lessons for U.S. Policymakers. One of its authors, Petra Todorovich of America 2050, is also a leading high speed rail advocate who has done some excellent work in DC. But here she and her team have put together [...]
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko may or may not have been a good scientist. (According to the agricultural scientists, he probably wasn’t.) But he was a good scientist in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, where ideological correctness, toeing the party line, was far more important than whether your conclusions were actually valid or not. Lysenko was [...]
The 2012 election can’t come quickly enough. The House Transportation Committee, headed by Florida Republican John Mica, has proposed privatizing the Amtrak Northeast Corridor: “We plan introduce legislation to separate the Northeast Corridor from Amtrak, transfer it to a separate entity, and begin a competitive bidding process that would allow for a public-private partnership to [...]
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