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Battle Over Brightline Funding Grows

Brian Mast, Bill Posey, others urge feds to suspend bonds for Brightline Brightline Train Heading North Through Deerfield Beach, FL By Scott Powers, Florida Politics Contending that there are statutory ...

Brightline opponents call financing plan shift a “scheme” to avoid lawsuit

By Jennifer Sorentrue December 22, 2016 Palm Beach Post Two Treasure Coast counties who filed a federal lawsuit challenging All Aboard Florida’s push to sell tax-exempt bonds to pay for ...

Letter: All Aboard Florida has dubious future ahead

By Nicholas Schaus of Vero Beach December 22, 2016 TC Palm (Letter to the Editor) All Aboard Florida’s first passenger train, Brightline, went through Vero Beach at 1 a.m. Dec. 14. There were ...

Brightline opponents want access to bond records

By Jennifer Sorentrue December 8, 2016 Palm Beach Post Two Treasure Coast counties who filed a federal lawsuit challenging All Aboard Florida’s push to sell tax-exempt bonds to pay for ...

Environmental permit challenges latest chapter in rail project fight

By Carrie Salls November 2, 2016 Florida Record CORAL GABLES – Officials in Martin and Indian River counties have started a new battle in connection with the completion of the ...

Judgment Sought in Florida Train’s Bond Allocation

By Shelly Sigo October 27, 2016 The Bond Buyer BRADENTON, Fla. –Two Florida counties say they have proven in federal lawsuits that the $1.75 billion private activity bond allocation for ...

All Aboard Florida could be in court in six weeks

By Catherine Lackner October 25, 2016 Miami Today Within six weeks, a lawsuit filed by Martin and Indian River counties along with some individual residents to block the leg of ...

Lawsuit threatens future of Miami-Orlando train project

By Dobora Lima September 14, 2016 South Florida Business Journal The Brightline train may be delayed. All Aboard Florida, the company building the Miami-to-Orlando passenger train, is embroiled in a ...

All Aboard Florida’s plan for passenger train service from Miami to Orlando in jeopardy

By Ann Henson Feltgen September 9, 2016 FloridaBulldog.org All Aboard Florida’s plan to operate regular passenger train service between Miami and Orlando is in jeopardy following a federal judge’s order ...