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[Untitled] Afterward, during a conference call with Jacksonville reporters, Crenshaw said he thinks his colleagues want an "efficient" stimulus package that doesn't include any earmarks. No project should receive stimulus money unless it has widespread support, Crenshaw said.

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[Business] Crenshaw, GOP panel: Revitalize economy with tax cuts over ...: A consensus is emerging among Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives that tax cuts for middle-class families and small businesses should constitute a major portion of any new economic stimulus plan, U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw, a Jacksonville Republican, said Thursday.

[Untitled] Streetsblog » Gov. Writes to Obama: Stimulate Economy by ...: Taking a national view of things, Governor Schwarzenegger provides a beautiful illustration of why a federal stimulus program needs to be project based and can't just be a blank check written to state DOT's.

[Untitled] Jacksonville.com: The issue could come up this month. Congressional leaders have raised the possibility of calling a special session for another economic stimulus package. david.bauerlein@jacksonville.com, (904) 359-4581 ...

[Untitled] New Downtown: Economic stimulus doesn't have to mean ecological ...: Economic stimulus doesn't have to mean ecological disaster. Jump-starting old construction projects to create jobs would harm more than help us.

[Untitled] Streetsblog » Measure R Highway Funds Ready to Roll. Transit Funds ...: In the presentations from the Westside Corridor extension community meetings, they were giving estimates along the lines of: ~3 years for Environmental Impact Report, ~7 years for construction. (and it was unclear what extent of the subway they were talking about, but all the maps they were showing were for routes all the way to Santa Monica) Which had me guesstimating that, if Measure R passed, we could expect to have the purple line extended to Santa Monica in about 10-12 years.

[Untitled] The Shad Plank: Virginia is being "piggy" on aircraft carriers ...: Mel Martinez and U.S. Reps Corrine Brown and Ander Crenshaw told a Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce committee Tuesday they have a fight on their hands with the Virginia delegation, which says the Navy should not spend the $500 million to make the base at the mouth of the St. Johns River nuclear ready.

[FLORIDA FUTURES SURVEY] Gateway to the Hemisphere: Waiting for a wider Canal: >> Tampa and other Gulf ports will pick up business from Jacksonville, Savannah and Charleston as high fuel prices cause importers and exporters to reduce inland rail and trucking costs.

[Untitled] Mitt Romney on economy in new ad: His supporters contend the state's job market was soft long before Romney's term, which ended in January last year, blaming a Democratic-controlled Legislature for the weakness. His spokesman, Kevin Madden, has asserted that Romney brought Massachusetts "back from the brink of financial disaster."

[Untitled] Warner wages one last war - Jen DiMascio - Politico.com: Strategically, you're wrong to assign all our Atlantic carriers to one port, unless you realize they are never in port at the same time, and always have the capacity to make it to a Pacific port. The bigger questions are how soon the concept of a carrier will be obsolete, how long will those we have last, how many carriers do we need and can afford, and should we spend $30billion more, including the air wing, on the next one currently under construction?

[Untitled] Streetsblog » Today’s Headlines: "Since the shovel hasn’t gotten into the ground for Crenshaw, maybe we should be advocating that it..." Jessica said: "I just watched the video - I love it. It is great to be putting real faces behind the word commuters.

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