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The US Congress is getting a reputation as the place where good ideas go to die. Although currently held by the Democratic Party, the real power lies with center-right Democrats who are generally skittish about significant change, and certainly wary of either spending money, finding new revenues for programs, or both. We can see this [...]
Rep. James Oberstar (D-MN) Rep. John Mica (R-FL) Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) Rep. John Duncan Jr. (R-TN) On Friday, chairman Rep. James Oberstar (D-MN) and ranking member Rep. John Mica (R-FL) of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure issued a press release and held a news conference on their blueprint for the next federal [...]
Thursday’s announcement by President Barack Obama of the HSR Strategic Plan got a lot of attention in the media and on the blogs – which is just what California’s project needs at this time. Obama’s high-profile leadership for HSR should help focus our state, especially those involved in the contentious debates over how to build [...]
So, I don’t quite know what to make of this poll, but I’ll pass it along anyway. The San Francisco Examiner is reporting on a poll done by BW Research Partners. The poll is about HSR, but takes what I would consider something of an odd tack – asking if Californians would support HSR even [...]
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