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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, [...]
As the United Kingdom debates building a high speed rail line from London to Manchester and Leeds, there’s a lot of discussion there that will sound familiar to Californian ears. Critics argue that the costs are too high and that the money could be better spent on something else. Supporters, including the coalition government currently [...]
One of the most important economic benefits of high speed rail to California is its ability to link larger urban areas on the coasts to smaller but significant urban areas further inland. Not only are those inland areas in need of help, but by shortening the travel time from, say, Los Angeles to Bakersfield it [...]
The California high speed rail project is not just a transformative piece of transportation infrastructure. It’s also an important economic stimulus, especially in the Central Valley which has still not yet recovered from the Great Recession. The California High Speed Rail Authority has taken laudable steps to pay good wages and include disadvantaged workers in [...]
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