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With the crunch worsening over the past several weeks in the credit markets, the bankruptcy reorganization forces are gearing up and eyeing potential debtors. Well, in this Heartland blog post, Thomas A. Rubin predicts one of the probable debtors that...
"It's nice to have a train car to myself"
About a year ago, this post noted the boondoggle status of Las Vegas' then new $650 million, 4.4 mile monorail project. As is typical with such boondoggles, passage of time does not make the problem any better: Donna Washington loves...
The Vegas monorail boondoggle
Tory Gattis of the smart Houston Strategies blog has been doing his typically excellent job of covering developments on the proposed expansion of the Houston Metro light rail line. Neither an over-the-top advocate nor a grizzled pessimist about urban rail...
The Las Vegas Monofail
Houston's light rail boondoggle has been the subject of several previous posts here. Given that misery loves company, this Washington Post article provides Houstonians with some comfort that Las Vegas may have managed to generate an even bigger rail boondoggle...
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