I ran across the story of how the Australian construction company Macquarie has bought up small local media outlets in order to push the agenda of their toll-road construction business and immediately thought of the toll-road proposal for Yamhill County (Newberg and Dundee) that was floating around a couple of years back, in which one of the leading players was, natch, Macquarie (which won a $20 million study contract).
Thankfully, I don’t have to connect the dots on this one, because Ridenbaugh Press’ Randy Stapilus did that a year ago himself, referring to reports from the Sydney Morning Herald and Sal Costello, a transportation-specialist blogger from Texas.