It's the right-hand corner lead this Sunday, folks:
Mass. vies for Fla.’s spurned rail funds
When the Obama administration awarded $10.4 billion for high-speed rail projects last year, Florida scooped up 20 times as much money as Massachusetts. But now that Florida’s new governor has rejected his state’s $2.4 billion, Massachusetts officials are racing to make another pitch to Washington.
The competition is likely to be fierce. Officials and members of Congress from dozens of states began lobbying Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood almost as soon as Governor Rick Scott of Florida turned down his state’s funding in mid-February. Scott followed in the path of two other Tea Party movement-backed governors, in Wisconsin and Ohio, who had also rejected what they viewed as wasteful and ill-advised federal rail funds....
You know, as much as I would like to believe in the rail thing we have more immediate problems like potholed-roads and crumbling bridges. The fact that the agenda-pu$hing media hops aboard the rail express makes me extremely suspicious.
How many TRILLIONS spent on wars and Wall street bailouts?
