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State Senator Alan Lowenthal, a Democrat, wants to go to Congress. He’s running in California’s 47th district, based in Long Beach. His fellow Democrats in Congress and President Obama support high speed rail. Tea Party Republicans in Congress are adamantly opposed to high speed rail and are working as hard as they can to defund [...]
State Senator Alan Lowenthal is running for Congress in an open seat – California’s 47th district. The seat is centered on Long Beach and includes some pieces of Orange County, which was why Lowenthal spoke last Friday at the luncheon of the Democratic Foundation of Orange County. Lowenthal has made a name for himself as [...]
It’s becoming increasingly clear that part of the upcoming revision to the 2012 Business Plan will include more money from Prop 1A for urban rail upgrades. Earlier we learned that the California High Speed Rail Authority and the Southern California Association of Governments had agreed on a proposal to fund rail upgrades in Southern California [...]
President Obama’s proposed FY 2013 budget should be tattooed to the foreheads of the Legislative Analyst’s Office, the State Auditor, the Peer Review Group, and any other California government agency that has criticized the state’s high speed rail project as “risky” due to concerns about federal funding. Obama’s budget includes $47 billion for passenger rail, [...]
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