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...rapid industrialization and growth, bringing new Americans and their attendant prosperity to far-off corners of the then-unsettled country. American passenger trains carried millions of new soldiers to their training depots and their ports of call during the two World Wars, and, until the expansion of the interstate highway system in the 1950s, rail travel remained the only reliable and affordable method for traversing the country. But, since then, American passenger rail has steadily declined in both prestige and ridership; in 1971, the federal government effectively bought out the dying industry under the aegis of the taxpayer-backed firm...
...Compared to the interstate highway system and the massive network of domestic airlines, high-speed rail is more energy-efficient and less costly per mile and provides an easy, efficient, and safe method of transportation. As such, we believe that a new national program of high-speed rail construction will be a worthwhile investment in infrastructure and job creation in the midst of the worst recession in more than two decades. In addition to the immediate benefits of job creation in the construction industry, the expansion of passenger rail travel will also provide jobs far into the future across...
...Collide,” announced by sets of heavily distorted guitar chords, the garage-rock sound of which feels appropriate given the album’s focus on cars. Most of the songs feel like they should be played full-volume while driving with the sunroof down through deserted highways of the Mid-West, rocking some shades, all the while bobbing along to the rhythm. This playfulness comes through in Young’s lyrics as well. The album’s title track, released in January this year with an accompanying video of Young playing air guitar...
Mayo is a former lay minister whose brand of genial grievance would make him a perfect AM-radio host. He had long been a presence in the local Op-Ed pages, campaigning vigorously against everything from a porn store near the high school to an unsafe highway pass. He started speaking out on illegal immigration, hectoring elected officials and writing a stream of e-mails to local newspapers. Eventually he wrote a ballot initiative, a bill to levy fines against employers of illegal immigrants. He was outspent and outorganized by regional activist groups - he raised $430, they raised more than...
Over drinks at El Tapatio, a half-empty restaurant near the highway, Margarito, his wife and uncle talked about the financial crisis - how Wall Street had binged on mortgages while Washington looked the other way. The parallels to immigration were pointed: during the boom years, the U.S. binged on cheap labor while politicians neither legalized workers nor prevented them from sneaking across the border. It was a grossly laissez-faire policy that has left everyone - Americans and immigrants alike - with a postboom hangover...