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Railroads

Has Warren Gone Off the Rails?

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Investment Strategy, Chicken, Investments, Warren Buffett, Railroads, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Warren Buffett is investing $32 billion in Burlington Northern Santa Fe, the nation's 2nd largest railroad. At first blush, this is radically counter-intuitive. A railroad? Isn't that hopelessly brick-and-mortar?

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Warren Buffett Buys A RAILROAD? Berkshire Hathaway Acquires Burlington Northern Railroad

AP | SAMANTHA BOMKAMP | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, Railroads, Burlington Norther Railroad, Business News

NEW YORK — The biggest name in investing is making what he calls an "all-in wager" on the U.S. economy – $34 billion to own a railroad tha...

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Time to Change the Game for Airline and Railroad Workers

Edward Wytkind | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Election Reform, Elections, National Mediation Board, Airline Unions, Railroads, Union Elections, Railroad Unions, Unions, Labor Unions, Airlines, Business News
Edward Wytkind

Unionization in the airline industry has slowed. Why? Union-busting campaigns are alive and well because current election policy encourages employer-run voter suppression campaigns.

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Commerce Residents Choke on Fumes

Terry Gardner | Posted 11.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Commerce, Cancer, Dirty Air, Train Pollution, Air Pollution, Railroads, California Air Resources Board, Green News
Terry Gardner

No one should have to hold their breath at home to avoid inhaling diesel fumes.

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P3s: Let's Not Party Like It's 1929

Michael Likosky | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business

Read More: p3s, New Deal, Railroads, Larry Summers, Granger Movement, Railroad Strikes of 1877, Bailout, Barack Obama, Fdr, Aig, Tennessee Valley Authority Dam Breaks, Money Trust, Robber Barons, Us Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Public-Private Partnerships, Abraham Lincoln, Homer Plessy, TARP Trust, Brotherhood of Sleepign Car Porters, A. Philip Randolph, Business News
Michael Likosky

We must take the public interest more seriously when we talk about P3s.

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Dick Cheney: The Quintessential Villain of the American West

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Joan Didion, Big Oil, Railroads, Big Coal, Halliburton, George W. Bush, Westerns, Native Americans, Wyoming, Torture, Dick Cheney, Old West, Republicans, Gop, Politics News
Nathan Hegedus

Sadly, in both the Old West and the new West, the big boys in the smoke-filled rooms always need a Dick Cheney.

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Obama Plots Huge High-Speed Railroad Expansion In Stimulus Bill

Politico | DAVID ROGERS | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Railroad Expansion, High Speed Rail Expansion, Barack Obama, Railroads, President Obama, High Speed Rail, Obama Administration, Stimulus Package, First 100 Days, Obama First 100 Days, 100 Days, Politics News

Railroads made Chicago, and now a Chicago-rich White House wants to return the favor: remaking rail with a huge new federal investment in high-speed p...

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Cuba's Trains: One More Victim in the Collapse of Infrastructure

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

Read More: Communism, Raul Castro, Black Market, World, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Politics, Railroads, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Lokomotiv He started with a pick and shovel, planting the heavy crossbeams that support the train lines. His father had also been a railroad worke...

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Ditch the Automobile Altogether

Joe Lauria | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Detroit, Railroads, Auto Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Auto Industry, Greenhouse Gases, Trains, High Speed Rail, Business News
Joe Lauria

Why not take those millions of dollars that create sophisticated commercial propaganda all day on television to induce us to buy a car and put it to work reducing greenhouse gases instead?

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Mass Transit Won Big On Election Day

TreeHugger.com | Posted 12.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Trains, Mass Transit, Green Living, Railroads, 2008 Election, Green News

November 4th was a good day for democracy in general (most of the voting went off without a hitch) and Democrats in particular. But lost in all the ex...

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China Railway $5.4 Billion IPO To Be World's Biggest This Year

Wall Street Journal | Nisha Gopalan | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Class H Shares, Biggest IPO, China Railway Construction, Initial Public Offerings, IPO, Hong Kong Dollars, Railroads, World's Biggest IPO, Business News

China Railway Construction Corp., the state-owned railroad builder, is seeking to raise up to US$5.44 billion ahead of Hong Kong and Shanghai listings...

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