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Tag: Passenger rail

Politics

Help build a rail line to Rochester, get a green card

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 31, 2015, 8:28 AM Aug 31, 2015
24

A private firm that wants to build a high-speed rail link from the Twin Cities to Rochester (and on to Chicago) is considering using the country’s immigration laws to make it happen.
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A Minnesota transportation solution: private funding

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 18, 2015, 9:13 AM Mar 18, 2015
34

High-speed rail between Rochester and the Twin Cities is never going to happen at the snail’s pace efforts have moved in recent years.

A Rochester group apparently has the solution — cut the government out of it. Read more →

Five by 8 · The jobs we do

5 x 8: Did we overreact on 9/11?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 11, 2013, 7:20 AM Sep 11, 2013
15

The day terrorists hit a lucky shot, with this ring she brought jobs to Minnesota, the failure of the railroad vision, the Star Tribune Bachmann editorial, and the people who wash windows. Read more →

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