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		<title>The Mineta Speech, Pt.3</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2011/02/08/the-mineta-speech-pt-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta offered his audience at the North American Port and Intermodal Finance and Investment Summit recommendations &#8220;we can act on immediately&#8221; to address the inadequate &#8220;role of maritime issues in our national transportation policy.&#8221;    Here are Pt. 1 and Pt.2. Pt.3 follows&#8230; It struck some people as a bit odd.  Here [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=870&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Dreaming of a New Congress</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2011/01/04/im-dreaming-of-a-new-congress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 04:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new two-year Congress commences on January 5th and it promises to be different in ways beyond the changed list of sworn-in men and women. In fact I think that we could see the start of some structural changes in Washington and maybe&#8230;just maybe&#8230;something good could come out of it.  Am I betting on it?  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=846&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WRDA: Commonsense Earmarking</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/12/20/wrda-a-commonsense-guide-to-earmarking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A restaurant is moving into our nearby Del Ray Alexandria neighborhood (and not nearly soon enough, I might add).  It is unabashedly called Pork Barrel BBQ. The name&#8211;chosen by a  couple of former Senate staffers now opening their first restaurant&#8211;has plenty of context in the Washington area where &#8220;pork barrel&#8221; is a mud that gets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=831&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congress Should Ban/Allow Earmarking</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/12/17/congress-should-banallow-earmarking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Step right up to the Washington Sideshow! See the lobbyist do strange things. Go ahead.  Don&#8217;t be afraid.  Ask me about earmarking.  Then watch my head spin, my eyes bulge, and listen as I speak in exasperations, convolutions and contradictions. Outside the Beltway earmarking might be a specialty of tattoo artists.  Inside the Beltway, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=819&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you, Mr. Chairman.  Good Luck, Mr. Chairman.</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/11/17/thank-you-mr-chairman-good-luck-mr-chairman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capitol Hill institution is a phrase that some incoming freshmen Members may not appreciate or find at all useful.  After all, some of them are arriving with the intent to de-institutionalize the place. Democrat Jim Oberstar was de-institutionalized on Election Day.  He lost his re-election bid as did some other senior congressmen, including two other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=803&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shipping The T. Boone Way</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/11/02/shipping-the-t-boone-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[T. Boone Pickens and I have something in common.  You probably do, too. The uber-capitalist wants to end our nation&#8217;s dependence on foreign fuel sources.  Especially those nation sources that love to take our money and use it to cut US off at the knees. No doubt T. Boone has an uber-financial interest in domestically [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=782&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Are We Doing?</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/10/07/what-are-we-doing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canada announced a waiver of its 25 percent import tariff on general cargo vessel, tankers, and ferries longer than 129 meters.  The decision will save shipowners $25 million per year over the next decade. &#8220;This duty relief will accelerate the renewal of the Canadian marine fleet across the country and will help replace aging vessels [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=750&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Searching for Common Sense in the Gulf</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/08/03/searching-for-common-sense-in-the-gulf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around the time that the Clinton Administration tried to tackle the abundance of red tape in Washington, with VP Al Gore in charge of the regulatory reform effort, a great small book was published.   It is Philip K. Howard&#8217;s &#8220;The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America.&#8221; Philip Howard&#8217;s book came to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=729&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Grass is Greener — Pt. 3</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/07/28/the-grass-is-greener-%e2%80%94-pt-3/</link>
		<comments>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/07/28/the-grass-is-greener-%e2%80%94-pt-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here in the U.S. some vessels may qualify as green or, in the instance of refitted tugs and ferries by the Port Authority of NY &#38; NJ to mitigate against dredge emissions for a major deepening project, are greener than they once were.  Then there&#8217;s the Foss Marine hybrid tug that was built with help [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=718&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good Things to Hear &#8212; Pt. 2</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/05/01/good-things-to-hear-pt-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 03:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This except from the opening of  &#8220;A National Intermodal Shift&#8221; by W. Cassidy and J. Boyd of the Journal of Commerce, April 5, 2010: The Obama administration is forming a national freight transportation policy that can be boiled down to one concept: Get more trucks off the roads. Key officials are increasingly making it clear [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=659&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toward Developing MTS Related Policy</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/02/15/toward-developing-mts-related-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting the USDOT leadership in front of an audience has become a bit of a tradition each January.   Most of the brass, sans Secretary LaHood, appeared en panel at the recent TRB annual convention.  The policy and modal chiefs offered brief overviews as to what is on their plates.  Here are notes from two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=621&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rail + Road + Water = Surface Freight System</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/12/01/rail-road-water-surface-freight-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) released a study in November comparing truck and rail fuel efficiency.  It&#8217;s an update of a 1991 FRA report. The new study identifies rail as more efficient.  No surprise there. The report, Comparative Evaluation of Rail and Truck Fuel Efficiency on Competitive Corridors (November 19, 2009), should be useful to Secretary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=544&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Connective Tissue of a Nation</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/11/17/the-connective-tissue-of-a-nation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can’t thrive as a nation while New Orleans is drowning&#8230;and cities in upstate New York and the Rust Belt are rotting from lack of employment opportunities, and so on.   Imagine, instead, an America with rebuilt, healthy, dynamic metropolitan areas, and gleaming new port facilities, and networks of high-speed rail, an America with electric vehicles [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=516&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will Ports Be Ready? (Part 3)</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2009/09/17/will-ports-be-ready-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will U.S. ports, especially those on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, be ready to operate in the changing domestic and international commercial environment? With major shifts on the way the ports that adequately prepare will be the ones to maintain and gain market share.  A shift in buying power—where the consumers are—may be the greatest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=320&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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