Editor’s Note: I’m on a month long “sabbatical” and for some reason Billy Townsend is in on the shores of Lake Erie, but he was able to send a message to suggest we rerun his column from...

I think that’s what working through Gov. Medicare Fraud’s very smooth head these days, as signified by his delaying any decision on killing CSX/SunRail until after the legislative session. The Axe the Tax/Tea...

Thanks to Bob O’Malley, CSX’s sort of jack-of-all-PR-trades for Florida, for responding to my post pointing out how much better a deal the leftists in Massachusetts worked out with CSX than the free market...

I’m grateful to Winter Haven Chamber Chief Bob Gernert for correcting commenter Strimarche, who claimed the USFP campus isn’t actually in the Lakeland city limits. It saved me the work of documenting it myself....

This is from the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram and Gazette $100 MILLION EXPANSION: CSX TO DOUBLE ITS FREIGHT YARD IN WORCESTER WORCESTER — CSX Corp. plans to more than double the size of its freight yard on Franklin Street...

Now that Winter Haven, the welfare queen of cities, is on the record with its plan to use USF Polytechnic as the world’s most high tech remote park-and-ride lot for a Legoland, maybe city and business leaders over...

Goodness Gracious. Whatever one thinks of the outcome of the CSX/High Speed Rail/Tri-Rail/Rail Authority/Sunrail monstrosity that finally romanced its way through Tallahassee last week, can we all agree on the general...

The CSX/SunRail/High Speed Rail session is underway, and chaos seems to be reigning. The big news, as seen in this Ledger story, is that Rep. Baxter Troutman won’t vote because of his interest in a business that stands...

I clearly don’t know the back story to any of the most recent negotiations - or whatever they are. But the letters to Sunrail backers from the Federal Transit Authority and from CSX discussing the new developments are...

Some schlub wrote this not long ago: In this economy, CSX will not lightly walk away from more than $600 million in cash and system improvements, liability or no. A commenter expressed some skepticism and asked what I based...

In this economy, CSX will not lightly walk away from more than $600 million in cash and system improvements, liability or no. FDOT probably still wants to hand that money over to the company. In fact, it’s already done...

“The Heartland Parkway will allow CSX the ability to efficiently move goods throughout Florida and the Southeastern United States.” That quotation comes from a letter Winter Haven City Manager David Greene wrote...

Update: Sentinel says the budget language is much ado about nothing, quoting Alexander and others. We’ll see. Wow. Intrigue and shenanigans everywhere in the CSX deal on Monday. First and foremost, Senate Democratic...

The next few months will bring us another race for Lakeland mayor. Currently squaring off are city commissioners Gow Fields and Jim Verplanck. We’re reaching out to both men to speak to the community. We’re in it...