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Absent MPs leave a stain on parliament
MISSING IN ACTION: Redcliffe MP Scott Driscoll has failed to attend Parliament since March. Picture: Jamie Hanson Source: The Courier-Mail IT'S been 144 years since someone has embarrassed the Queensland Parliament as much as Scott Driscoll. The embattle 5/24/13 from The Courier Mail Read more »
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Gary taking a new tack to expand, land business for its airport
partnership, officials said. The airport authority is hoping to garner about $100 million in capital investment. Robert Poole, a transportation expert and public-private partnership proponent with the Reason Foundation, called it "a tall order, given that from Chicago Tribune Read more »
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Who’s Crazy?
Antiplanner’s faithful ally, Robert Poole of the Reason Foundation, told a Congressional committee last week that highway user fees should be dedicated to highways and any federal subsidies to transit should come out of other funds. Unfortunately, we have from The Antiplanner Read more »
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Congress Indulges in Crazy Talk About De-Funding Transit and Taxing Bikes
switching to a mileage-based user fee, or VMT tax – but really, the red meat here is highways and only highways. Thanks, Robert Poole. Next up, Richard Geddes wanted to talk about the insustainability of any funding mechanism that depends on the burning of from Streetsblog DC Read more »
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Bridge deal holds risk for Indiana taxpayers
approach is a shift away from traditional state projects in which private operators assumed the risk of toll revenues, said Robert Poole, transportation policy director at the Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank. Overall, according to the Public Works from Louisville Courier-Journal Read more »
