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Daniel Weintraub at the Sacramento Bee is hosting a “Sunday Conversation” on Prop 1A. The conversation consists of four articles – an HSR-skeptical article from Weintraub himself, an article from HSR denier Joseph Vranich and two from Californians who currently ride the passenger trains and who would welcome high speed rail. It’s an interesting discussion, [...]
Today’s Long Beach Press-Telegram editorializes against Prop 1A. As is becoming depressingly common with newspaper editorials, the Press-Telegram’s anti-HSR screed contains a number of out-and-out lies that need to be called out here. The editorial staff does its readers a disservice by misleading them on some of the most fundamental aspects of Prop 1A and [...]
In 2005 the far-right editorial board at the Orange County Register joined conservative Republicans in a deranged attack on Measure D, which would have diverted existing public safety monies to the Orange County Fire Authority to help pay for necessary fire equipment. It didn’t create any new taxes, and met a need that nearly anyone [...]
It’s now official – the Sierra Club of California has voted to endorse Proposition 1A. We all knew that high speed rail would provide a major boost to California’s efforts to produce environmentally friendly, sustainable, and global warming-fighting policies, and the Sierra Club’s endorsement will help communicate that clearly to voters. From their Yes on [...]
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