Tony Dutzik
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Tony Dutzik is senior policy analyst with Frontier Group, specializing in energy, transportation and climate policy. He is the author of more than three dozen Frontier Group reports on these and other topics, and his research has received national media attention, gaining coverage in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Philadelphia Inquirer and other major media outlets. Prior to joining Frontier Group in 2001, Tony worked as an education reporter for the Eagle-Tribune newspaper of Lawrence, Mass., as political writer with the Fund for the Public Interest, and as a campus organizer for the state Public Interest Research Groups. He holds a Master's degree in print journalism from Boston University and a Bachelor of Science degree in public service from Penn State University. A native of Pittsburgh, he now resides in Massachusetts.

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In the Public Interest: The Little Train that Could ... and Did

Posted January 27, 2012 | 01/27/12 11:49 AM ET

When President Obama took office in 2009, he brought with him the greatest hope in decades for reinvestment in the nation's passenger rail system.

The public focus was on "high-speed rail," but many of the investments made by the Obama administration and Congress were small-bore improvements to the nation's...

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In the Public Interest: Americans Are Driving Less, Washington Should Pay Attention

Posted September 14, 2011 | 09/14/11 02:44 PM ET

A few years ago, a strange thing happened: Americans started driving less.

How strange was it? For 60 years, up until 2005, the number of miles driven on America's roads increased by an average of 3.7 percent per year -- that's more than twice as fast as population growth....

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In The Public Interest: Rail -- Neither Right nor Left but Forward

Posted March 3, 2011 | 03/03/11 06:51 PM ET

I hate to call attention to George Will's latest column in Newsweek -- a psycho-political portrait that seeks to explain why liberals love high-speed rail. But it is actually a pretty instructive read. While Will starts out trying to shine a light on the workings of the progressive...

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