http://www.examiner.com/x-10977-Jacksonville-Transportation-Examiner~y2009m11d13-SunRail-reaches-out-to-Jacksonville
http://www.jaxobserver.com/2009/11/06/democrats-call-for-sunrail-support-gop-says-about-time/
Florida Democratic leaders on Thursday called on Republican leaders to help draw down federal stimulus money to secure funding for SunRail.
House Speaker Larry Cretul, R-Ocala remains uncommitted, but House Republicans have said theyre waiting to get committed until they see if the Senate now has enough votes after killing the project earlier this year.
He was speaking to the North Florida Transportation Planning Organization directors meeting Thursday at its monthly gathering.Florida is moving forward someone said.
Here’s an interesting picture that takes us back a while. Sometimes it’s difficult to see the long-term impact in transportation planning, but here’s a picture from 1890 that is a transportation project in Central Florida. Sometimes it’s hard to see the long-term impact in transportation planning. As in life, what was once in style often comes back. Isn’t it all about choices
Talks that a special session will happen by December to determine SunRail’s future became louder this week, when Central Florida leaders gathered in Orlando Wednesday for a meeting with U.S. Sen. George LeMieux to discuss the $1.2 billion project’s chances of gaining enough approval to become a reality.
Florida future is important.
The deal’s biggest critic, state Sen. Paula Dockery, R-Lakeland, has called the deal overly generous to CSX.
Budget cuts will maim state of California colleges and universities
From the 1960s to the 1990s the vocational training system in California was second to no one. People flocked to this impressive state so that their young people not only had admission to the K-12 system, but to a open university system that rivals the Ivy League.
The University of California system is a considerable player in the world of secondary education, however, with the fresh budget cuts – and the schemes for more – that may all be changing. This is a parody and will only work to tip the scales in the not right direction.
California’s public pensions need reform
Advocates of overhauling California’s problematic pension system for public employees could not have chosen a more providential moment to launch their reform campaign.
The enormous California Public Employees’ Retirement System is in deep financial doo-doo, having lost tens of billions of dollars in often-notional investments, and is telling state and local officials it going to need more ‘contributions.’ Meanwhile, investigations are under way into multimillion-dollar payments to placement agents who arranged some investments.
State Finance Directors Warn of More Cruxes Ahead
Short-time budget gaps have battered states as incomes plummeted while the retirement. Helped by about $250 billion in funds from the stimulus package expected through the end of next year, states managed to close the gaps this year. But both finance directors, speaking at a Pew Center on the States event in Washington, were pessimistic about their conditions’ following on the other side financial 2011
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