Husker Train
Sounds awesome, I’d definitely ride it” is the usual response I get when talking to somebody about my train idea. The idea of exploring the feasibility of a commuter train from Omaha to Lincoln for Cornhusker home games was presented to me by an employee of Union Pacific. He figured the demand was high enough to warrant offering the service. He couldn’t have been more right. Bi-level gallery cars gleaming down the track with thousands of rabid Husker fans pouring out of them when they reach their destination: this is the dream that has come from that simple project idea.
The Dead Zone: The Deepwater Horizon oil spill versus the dead zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico - which is worse?
A few weeks ago I received an e-mail message from Gabriella Belmarez, a high school student at Lamar Academy in McAllen, Texas, that inspired me to think about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in a new light. Gabriella wrote that I gave her “…the impression that you felt the public should have been as concerned with the dead zone in the Gulf as with BP’s recent oil spill…”. Her insightful inquiry caused me to consider which situation is worse, the oil spill or the presence of a large body of oxygen-poor or hypoxic water that develops along the coast of the northern Gulf of Mexico each year.
