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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 [...]
Last week the PBS NewsHour filed this 9-minute report on the California high speed rail project. It’s an overview of the project, some of the debates around it (including a visit to Kings County) and short interviews with Dan Richard of the California High Speed Rail Authority, US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, and Republican Senator [...]
The three State Senate Democrats who have been the most wobbly on high speed rail – potentially siding with Tea Party Republicans instead of with their governor and their president – are holding a hearing on the project in Mountain View on Tuesday, March 13. From an email sent by Senator Joe Simitian: The proposal [...]
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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