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Culver tours western Iowa to promote passenger rail

The casual observer couldn’t be faulted for seeing Gov. Chet Culver’s itinerary and thinking the 2010 campaign was already underway, but the governor insisted that his 13-city whistlestop tour across Western Iowa was “about getting things done and setting the politics aside.”


Iowa lawmakers call for more rail funding in stimulus bill

The federal economic stimulus plan does not include sufficient funding for intercity passenger rail, according to a group of Iowa lawmakers.