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Regulation: Some Good, Some Not.
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Regulation: Some Good, Some Not.

ByJim Loomis 06/09/201606/09/2016

The argument for and against government regulation goes on. And on. And on. What I object to is the knee jerk reaction by conservatives who oppose any new regulation simply as a matter of ideology. No doubt some government regulation is overblown and intrusive. Maybe even unnecessary. But most is sensible and needed. (By the…

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Some True Facts* About America’s Railroads
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Some True Facts* About America’s Railroads

ByJim Loomis 03/07/201009/06/2014

For most of last year, I was working on the new edition of a book I wrote in the late 90s about train travel in North America. As you can imagine, there was a helluva lot of updating to do. In the course of all that, I contacted the folks at the Association of American…

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