Original Author:
(James Rowen)
Republican legislators who oppose transit, taking their cues from anti-rail Gov. Scott Walker, having this year eliminated regional transit authorities and further study of a commuter rail line from Milwaukee to nearby lakefront stops in Racine and Kenosha, succeeded last week getting the Feds to transfer commuter rail funding
to other states.
This comes less than ten months after Walker turned back $810 million in federal funding to build an Amtrak/Midwest High-Speed rail connection from Milwaukee to Madison and make other improvements to existing Amtrak service from Milwaukee to Chicago.
Walker and the legislature are proceeding with a fresh $1.7 billion reconstruction and widening to the so-called Zoo Interchange at the Milwaukee/Waukesha County line west of the City of Milwaukee, and are forging ahead with other major highway projects, including widening and expansion of I-94 from Milwaukee to the Illinois state line and preparing for a new, $1 billion lane addition ti I-39/90 from Rockford at the Illinois line north to Madison and perhaps all the way to the Wisconsin Dells.
Original Author:
Democracy for New Mexico
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Original Author:
Democracy for New Mexico
This is a guest blog by Steve Klinger, a long-time journalist and editor of the Grassroots Press, on the recent launch of a new, independent print and online newspaper called The Light of New Mexico. Steve will be editing the paper, which will initially be published monthly. The first print issue of The Light of New Mexico hit the streets of Santa Fe on September 15, with a cover story on "The Politics of H2O: Who Controls Your Water?" It's also available for download as a pdf by clicking here.
The newspaper, published by Skip Whitson, will focus on "Illuminating Inconvenient Truths," and will be covering "Conscious Culture, including Politics, Reviews, Books and Entertainment." The Light of New Mexico is designed to serve as a progressive, alternative source of ideas, information and a networking nexus for north-central New Mexico and beyond, providing a newspaper, a blog and a community resource.
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