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...

Want to make eyes flutter and hearts skip with a single word? Buttonhole your favorite commissioner, developer, city planner or legacy media reporter. Sidle up close, check around for cameras and whisper:...

We understand you’re busy. Who has time to read all the news? It takes a lot of work to even remember to check your favorite news and features site every day. And heaven knows you don’t have time to find the...

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...

Continuing the discussion on transportation in the Central Florida region, a conference has been set for February 23rd at the Lakeland Center 9:30 am – 2 pm. Hosted by the Central Florida Development Council, Inc. of...

I spent a not-small-enough portion of my Thanksgiving break rummaging through ancient, partially dry-rotted legal files stored in a small trailer on my aunt’s property in Palatka, my hometown. Among the dregs of my...

As I was driving home last night, I heard a WUSF report in which Sen. JD Alexander, R-Lake Wales, waxed patriotic about how it’s our duty to support our troops by approving Sunrail. Yes, really. The idea is that the...

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...

You may have seen this story Thursday in The Ledger: CSX Battle Drained State of $44 million Quite a chunk of change. I’ll let Joe Follick’s story discuss the merits of spending that money in advance of a big...

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...

Hey, you remember when some schmuck wrote this?: And finally, I now think that if the freight realignment deal goes down, and CSX gets no public money for the hub, it won’t get built – at least for a number of years....

The CSX deal absorbed a giant defeat on the floor of the Florida Senate this evening. See story here. How big? Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer declared: “The forces of evil have won.” Now, this isn’t done....