The Federal Railroad Administration announced this month that Colorado is included in the nation’s Corridor Identification and Development Program. The FRA is giving our state’s Front Range Passenger Rail District $500,000 in seed money to help plan the proposed system of passenger trains from Ft. Collins to Pueblo. The money comes from the 2021Â Bipartisan Infrastructure … Read more
In Crested Butte, the winter of ’79-’80 was big. Snow buried buildings and skiers rejoiced. I moved to the town just before that big snow and partook of it. It was also a time of political intensity, as the Amax mining corporation was pushing hard to build a billion-dollar molybdenum mine in the Red Lady … Read more
A Guy From My Class Won the Nobel Prize Douglas W. Diamond was in my Brown University class of 1975. On Oct. 10, 2022, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that he is one of three recipients of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. I didn’t know him, had nothing to do with him, … Read more