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It’s looking pretty certain now that Thursday will be the day the federal government announces the recipients of the $8 billion in HSR stimulus funds. According to the Wall Street Journal: The Obama administration is set to award $8 billion in stimulus funds for high-speed rail, and Florida is seen as a front-runner to get [...]

Jan 25th, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized

Every so often this blog spends several days in a row focused on the latest HSR drama on the Peninsula. This is of necessity, since that’s where the most high-profile debates are taking place, and where most of the state’s HSR denialism and criticism are coming from, so it makes sense for us who support [...]

Jan 24th, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized

Working on a post for tomorrow about the Central Valley Maintenance Hub, and then probably something about Anaheim this coming Monday. Gotta keep the statewide focus! Some items for a welcome sunny Saturday: Californians For High Speed Rail and yours truly were featured in a San Mateo County Times article on the launch of our [...]

Jan 23rd, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized

It was a very interesting (and long) evening in Palo Alto, with lots of fodder for blog commentary. I’m going to have to keep some of this brief for now in order to get through it all, and will expand on certain points in posts over the weekend. Some key things that we learned from [...]

Jan 22nd, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized