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high-speed rail
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New York’s high-speed rail fail
Rochester doesn’t have enough train travelers to support a coffee shop. Is there really a market upstate for high-speed rail that costs billions?
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Railroading New York
High-speed rail boosters have long argued that faster, more reliable trains would provide the state with economic and environmental benefits.
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Runaway train station?
The New York State Department of Transportation has taken the intermodal station project off the City of Rochester’s hands, and city officials are wary. “Our concern is that we’ve invested a fair amount of time and effort in getting this design and this plan in place, and people are very attached to it,” says Mayor […]
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ELECTIONS 2012: Evaluating Slaughter’s record
Democratic incumbent Louise Slaughter is one of the most liberal members of the House of Representatives, and proudly so. She’s quick-witted, a master zinger-slinger, and energetic. Her folksy populism marinates in an endearing Kentucky accent, but she can get down in the weeds, too — she’s a microbiologist — and discuss in minute detail the best circumstances to grow algae for conversion to gasoline, for example. Slaughter’s critics like to say, “Sure, she’s likeable, but what has she done?” The answer is quite a lot.
