Gubernatorial aide Kip Bergstrom is ready to tell other states, “We will steal your scientists”—but he wants high-speed trains to help him do it. The New Haven Independent reports.

A working policy group has recommended that Gov. Dannel Malloy pick from a menu including highway tolls, or higher taxes on gasoline, automobile sales and car registrations to fill the state coffers to pay for transportation projects geared toward economic development.