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Overall I think the reaction to the 2012 Business Plan has been positive. The Authority’s decision to go not just for honesty, but for a thorough and extremely detailed plan that relies on overly conservative projections that nevertheless show the system will be profitable, appears to have scored it a political victory. Of course, we’ll [...]
As was reported by Kathy Hamilton, Senator Joe Simitian mentioned that an effort to include a legislative exemption in the state budget deal for California High Speed Rail Authority board members Curt Pringle and Richard Katz, to clear up questions about whether they hold “incompatible offices,” was blocked. Today’s LA Times sheds more light on [...]
California State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (head of the majority Democrats) proposed a jobs package yesterday, and high speed rail is a key element: A day before the first legislative vote on efforts to close California’s $19.9 billion deficit, Senate Democrats on Tuesday mapped out a package of bills they claim will rev [...]
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