Via his Government Center blog, Rochester Post-Bulletin reporter Jeffrey Pieters supplies tomorrow's news today:
Oral arguments scheduled in DM&E caseSept. 14, 2006
By Jeffrey Pieters
jpieters@postbulletin.com
Federal judges will hear Rochester’s and Mayo Clinic’s second appeal against the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad upgrade project about two months from now. [read more]
Two other items of note:
Byron, MN mayor wants out of DM&E deal (http://webstar.postbulletin.com/agrinews/31185203409987.bsp)
And I don't know what to make of this:
Anti-DM&E forces getting additional help
PIERRE, S.D. -- A former Bill Janklow staff member is coordinating an effort to get video comments from people who live and work along the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad, which wants to upgrade track and build a new line to haul Wyoming coal across South Dakota and southern Minnesota.
Janklow, a former congressman and South Dakota governor, is working with consultants brought in by Rochester, Minn., and the Mayo Clinic, which oppose the Sioux Falls-based railroad's plans.
The video will be part of testimony to the Federal Railroad Administration, said Marshall Damgaard, whose crew was in Pierre last week.
Posted by: tom | September 13, 2006 at 12:44 PM