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The Fresno Bee is out with a damning new editorial, saying that Representative Jeff Denham “Betrays the Valley”: In the Central Valley — where unemployment averages more than 15%, more than 40% in some cities — the [HSR] project would bring jobs and better connections with the coastal economies. It would relieve traffic congestion on [...]
Congressional Republicans and others opposed to the California high speed rail project had been hoping the Surface Transportation Board would give them a big win and block construction of the HSR project this summer. But that won’t be happening. Instead the STB today ruled in favor of the California HSR project, granting the section from [...]
The modern Republican Party is a bizarre creature in many ways. One of its strangest aspects is its willingness to not only destroy the jobs of their supporters and constituents, but to do so openly, even loudly, and with glee. Jeff Denham provides the latest example. Once touted by some in Sacramento as a moderate, [...]
Having failed at all their other efforts to stop the California high speed rail project, aside from preventing any new federal funding from going to it, Republicans in Congress led by Central Valley representatives who hate the idea of their constituents having good jobs are looking to one final possible savior: the Surface Transportation Board. [...]
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