Wisconsin’s plans to expand the nation’s high speed rail service from Chicago, through Milwaukee, Madison, and western Wisconsin has apparently been derailed. We hear from Major Curtiss Hartley of the La Crosse Salvation Army about its red kettle campaign.
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High Speed Rail
Wisconsin’s plans to expand the nation’s high speed rail service from Chicago, through Milwaukee, Madison, and western Wisconsin has apparently been derailed. The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced that in lieu of Governor-elect Scott Walker’s plans to scrap the project, the federal support first allocated for Wisconsin’s leg of the expanded service will now be shared with other states. Proponents of the expansion are discouraged, but continue to profess the benefits of such service. In the first part of this program, a conversation with the president of the Wisconsin Association of Railroad Passengers, John Parkyn, of Stoddard.
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Holiday Fundraising
Also on the program, what it’s like to be fundraising for community causes during the holidays. We hear from Major Curtiss Hartley of the La Crosse Salvation Army about its red kettle campaign.
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