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Roger Baker : Can the Economy Recover?
Cartoon from Talking Union.Can the economy recover?And, for that matter, should it? By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / December 4, 2009 [Steven Chu, U.S. Secretary of Energy] was my boss. He knows all about peak oil, but he … Continue reading
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Is Austin drowning in traffic growth?
Part 1: Is Austin drowning in ever-increasing traffic? Think again; top road lobby myth debunked! By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | June 8, 2009 [This is the first of a two-part series by the Rag Blog’s Roger Baker … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Roger Baker, Texas, Transportation, Transportation Politics, TXDot
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Texas Toll Road 183-A: The economics and the special interests
Shrinking traffic increases could mean bond default problems for US 183-A. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | February 18, 2009 The road lobby operates as a sort of well-funded shadow government, organized to overcome citizen opposition to unpopular … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Roger Baker, Texas Toll Roads, Toll Roads, Transportation, Transportation Politics, TXDot
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Texas toll roads: Feds must take lead
Our national transportation infrastructure crisis is now so serious and the funds are so short of the scale of the problem that it is absolutely going to take a comprehensive federal approach rather than a state approach to get anywhere. … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Rag Bloggers, Roger Baker, Texas, Texas Legislature, Texas Toll Roads, Toll Roads, Transportation, Transportation Politics, TXDot
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Austin : Where real estate drives the
political machine
The most profitable short term growth for land speculators is the opposite of a wise policy when you are moving into a period of scarce resources. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | November 17, 2008 What I have … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Austin Growth, Land Speculation, Rag Bloggers, Real Estate, Relate Estate, Roger Baker, Texas, Transportation, Urban Sprawl
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