July 19, 2025 - Tahlequah Oklahoma Daily Press - Reprinted with authorization -State-level politicians grow increasingly incompetent, stingy and cruel in many parts of the country, and the Texas Legislature – whose members meet only every other year and undoubtedly...

July 20, 2025 - thetravel.com - It’s a common saying that “everything is bigger in Texas.” The state is renowned for its expansive highways, vast ranches, generous food portions, and thriving cities. While big projects like a proposed Houston-to-Dallas high-speed rail line—set...

July 10, 2025 - TRA Newswire -The North Central Texas Council of Government's Regional Transportation Council has done what the state of Texas shirked it's responsibilities in doing... fund the Heartland Flyer passenger rail service.In a vote today at their...

July 1, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Tickets are now available for new twice-daily Amtrak intercity train service starting Aug. 18 between Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans, along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The new state-sponsored Amtrak Mardi Gras Service will offer convenient morning...

June 19, 2025 - TRA Newswire - If you're one of 5,000 people in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, you are going to receive an e-mail action alert from DC-based Rail Passengers Association asking for your help to contact officials and save...

June 9, 2025 - FortWorthReport.org, Eric E. Garcia - The Heartland Flyer hasn’t rolled off the tracks just yet.Regional officials are working to maintain funding to keep the Amtrak passenger train’s daily trips from Fort Worth to Oklahoma City — at least temporarily. State...

April 28, 2025 - TexasHighways.com - When Houston Natives Kim and Sean Ballesteros purchased a second home 465 miles away in the West Texas community of Sanderson, they wanted their vacation to begin the moment they walked out the door. “We didn’t...

April 25, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Agreements have been reached for new twice-daily Amtrak intercity train service along the Mississippi Gulf Coast between New Orleans and Mobile, Ala. Starting this summer, the new state-sponsored Amtrak Mardi Gras Service will offer convenient morning...

April 15, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Yesterday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that Amtrak will no longer head up the Dallas-Houston high-speed rail project and will step aside so better equipped private sector interests can move the plan forward....

April 14, 2025 - TRA Newswire -Within a matter of hours, two breaking issues on the effort to bring high-speed rail to Texas. The next several days may tell us who is in charge of the Texas bullet train project...