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- Fireworks Forecast
- Still a Flood Watch…but Drier
- Federal Stimulus $$: Now Flowing to a Town near You
- Tribune Editorial: Beware the new CSX deal
- Court rules against Crist in fight over diversity in judicial appointments
- More heavy rain possible today
- Wilkinson to announce congressional race (?) Thursday
- Greer: No “pay to play” with black media
- Flood watch in effect in Tampa Bay area
- Crist signs water bill that drew objections
- Dockery 4th most powerful person in Orlando, says mag
- Pro-drilling Dem draws primary challenge
- Crist, Henriquez seek SOE post
- Sachs/M-D poll shows McCollum leading Sink
- Heavy rain possible today
Learning About Trains In Atlanta And Lakeland
As a gaggle of Polk County commissioners and government officials heads north to Atlanta to tour an Atlanta rail hub as background for considering the planned CSX hub in Winter Haven, a regular PCNB reader has called to let me know that a CSX train has apparently broken down through downtown Lakeland, snarling traffic. My reader tells me he’s been in traffic for 90 minutes.
Police radio traffic indicates that it is a CSX train that’s broken down and that there’s no prediction for when it will be removed. This is precisely the type of impact that critics of the train project fear.
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