By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and MIKE SCHNEIDER
Associated Press Apr 27, 2021
U.S. Census Bureau via AP
In this image from video provided by the U.S. Census Bureau,
acting director of the U.S. Census Bureau Ron Jarmin speaks as a
graphic showing the U.S. population as of April 1, 2020, is
displayed during a virtual news conference Monday, April 26, 2021.
The Census Bureau is releasing the first data from its 2020
headcount.
The first batch of once-every-decade data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows a United States that is growing less quickly but still seeing its population shift to the South and the West.
Amtrak Playing Hardball With CSX, NS on Gulf Coast Service (Updated)
Amtrak Playing Hardball With CSX, NS on Gulf Coast Service (Updated) Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
More than 300 people rode Amtrak’s Gulf Coast Inspection Train (pictured) from New Orleans to Jacksonville, Fla., in February 2016, as part of an ongoing effort to restore passenger rail service along the Gulf Coast, which was disrupted by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and never resumed. (Marc Glucksman, Amtrak)
In a move that appears to be a pre-emptive strike, Amtrak has asked the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to intervene on its behalf if CSX and Norfolk Southern don’t cooperate on hosting proposed new service between New Orleans and Mobile.