Scotland’s Epic Vote on Independence
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 13th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Scotland’s Epic Vote on Independence
George Will, Washington Post
Candidates Playing Possum
Gail Collins, New York Times
Election season! Tension mounts! Longtime public servants are aware that the least little slip and they could be out the door. Forced, like ousted House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, to labor in the sweatshops of the investment banking industry.With $1.4 million in signing bonuses. Do you think that’s why he quit the House early, people? I totally believed he just wanted to give his successor a head start.
Insular Rail Industry Impedes Innovative Outsiders
Robert Ahern, RCP
Small, innovative companies in the U.S. are coming up with answers to some of the most pressing and persistent problems on America’s railways. But they’re being stonewalled at every turn by a hidebound, insular rail industry. Rail travel, for both freight and passengers, is safer now than it has ever been. Yet the industry has been unable — or unwilling — to fix some issues. Failure of wheel bearings is one of them. Another is the accidental uncoupling of cars. In both of these cases, smart, independent companies have devised solutions only to be rebuffed by a railroad industry that is…
2014’s ‘More Liberal’ Democratic Party
Sen. Tom Harkin, Washington Post