Dear Dick
Apr 22 around 1 pm mountain time
What Holocaust?
Apr 21 around 11 am mountain time
[A Holocaust survivor's son] told the story of a college freshman in Southern California who stood up during a presentation his mother was giving and said she’d never heard of the Holocaust.
What are they teaching in history classes nowadays?
Oh baby!
Apr 18 around 9 pm mountain time
At twenty weeks, take a look at this — the profile of our bun in the oven.
Making records in New York
Apr 18 around 9 pm mountain time
You just don’t see this too often. Matter of fact, no one’s ever seen it before. In 193,000 games played in the history of major league baseball, no team has ever scored 14 runs in the second inning.Â
Tribe 22, Yanks 4 in their second straight blow-out at their new $1.5 billion stadium.
On a vision for high-speed rail network in America
Apr 16 around 11 am mountain time
Some of the best news I’ve heard in a very long time.
 With clogged highways and overburdened airports, economic growth was suffering, Mr. Obama said from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, shortly before leaving for a weekend trip to Latin America.
“What we need, then, is a smart transportation system equal to the needs of the 21st century,†he said, “a system that reduces travel times and increases mobility, a system that reduces congestion and boosts productivity, a system that reduces destructive emissions and creates jobs.â€
And he added, “There’s no reason why we can’t do this.â€
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The government has identified 10 corridors of 100 to 600 miles in length with greatest promise for high-speed development.
They are: a northern New England line; an Empire line running east to west in New York State; a Keystone corridor running laterally through Pennsylvania; a southeast network connecting the District of Columbia to Florida and the Gulf Coast; a Gulf Coast line extending from eastern Texas to western Alabama; a corridor in central and southern Florida; a Texas-to-Oklahoma line; a California corridor where voters have already approved a line that will allow travel from San Francisco to Los Angeles in two and a half hours; and a corridor in the Pacific Northwest.
