Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Audio review by Jack Lessenberry, Michigan Public Radio’s Senior Political Analyst, of “Inside the Red Zone: A Veteran For Peace Reports from Iraq”
You can also listen to Jack Lessenberry’s Interview with Mike Ferner.
June 28, 2006
By Mike Ferner
The 50th anniversary of President Eisenhower’s signing of the Interstate Highway Act is a good time to dust off this review of the PBS documentary, “Taken for a Ride” that I wrote 10 years ago when President Clinton visited my city during the 1996 presidential campaign.
Riding a “Presidential Special” from Columbus to Toledo on tracks that no longer carry passenger trains, Clinton crowed, “I’m goin’ to Chicago (for the Democratic Party convention) and I’m goin’ on a train!”
I wanted to ask him why the rest of us could no longer travel to our state capital by train; why we are the only industrialized nation on earth that refuses to subsidize its passenger rail system? And I asked a question that makes me sick to my stomach to read 10 years later: “How many more billions of dollars and how many more lives will we pay for Mideast oil?”
