Alabama is edging back into the passenger train business...or at least the Birmingham News reports we've agreed to pay our dues to a group pushing high-speed rail. The Director of ADECA had refused to pay the dues because his agency "isn't in the transportation business". Uh, can't the same thing be said of almost any of the gazilion special-purpose grants that pass through ADECA every year? There are police departments and schools and water boards that have all received ADECA money, yet ADECA is not a police or education or utility agency either.