By: Nancy Smith
| Posted: November 14, 2011 3:55 AM
The Get-Rick-Scotters are either desperate to paint the governor as a shady backroom dealmaker or they conveniently ignored central points in the judge's order on prison privatization.
Private companies from around the world are lined up at the starting gate, anxious for the opportunity to move Florida’s high-speed rail initiative forward.
By: Gray Rohrer
| Posted: January 12, 2011 3:55 AM
State Senators heaped praise on Florida's high-speed rail project Tuesday, touting it as a massive job creator that might not cost state taxpayers a dime.
Gov. Rick Scott met Saturday with Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara to discuss expanding trade between Florida and Japan, but it was the state's high-speed rail project that most captured the focus of Maehara and the foreign press.
The total cost of the first phase of Florida’s high-speed rail project could be more than double official estimates, according to a report released Thursday by the Reason Foundation, a California-based libertarian think tank.
