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[quote user="dakotafred"] TRAINS should be as scrupulous about politics in its "news" columns as it is with us poor bloggers. In his story about the Cascades service, writer Alexander B. Craghead gets away with this (Page 53): "The country's second look at high speed rail stands on shaky ground ... At the time of this writing, projects in Ohio and Wisconsin ... are being sacrificed on the altar  of political gamesmanship and ideological posturing." Sorry, the successful gubernatorial candidates in Ohio and Wisconsin campaigned against so-called HSR and were willing to win or lose on their positions. Who the heck is Craghead, who to my knowledge has never run for anything, to snipe at them as "posturing"? <div style="clear:both;"></div> [/quote] HSR is political, and so is the opposition to it.  It is a political debate about how to use public funds.  In my opinion, however, the editors of Trains fail to see HSR as being political.  They only see opposition to it as being political.  And that position does tend to telegraph through to the moderation of these forums where discussion favoring HSR is perfectly acceptable, even if it gets into insulting politicians by name for opposing HSR.  However, if discussion goes against HSR and begins to explore the political principles of that dynamic, buttons get pushed and threads get locked.      <o:p></o:p> I too would take issue with the characterization of a governor’s opposition to HSR as “posturing.”  To me, someone who makes such a charge does not understand politics.
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