A picture — or in this case, a graph — most definitely is worth a thousand words. Take a look at how the feds have spent money on transportation over...

It’s interesting and frustrating that so many candidates for federal office continue to denigrate rail travel in general and Amtrak in particular. Makes you wonder how someone can aspire to...

Doing battle with the anti-Amtrak, anti-rail people is frustrating. They never offer solutions. They just go bonkers at the idea of tax dollars being used to subsidize Amtrak. Of course,...

Whenever I run into one of the knee-jerk conservative ideologues who goes bonkers at the very idea of a federal subsidy for Amtrak, my standard response is, “But in a...