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I wasn’t able to attend the recent town hall held by State Senator Joe Simitian in Palo Alto, but Kathy Hamilton, a project critic, did, and she filed a very interesting report on the event. The crowd was generally anti-HSR, so that should be kept in mind in assessing the conversation. The upshot is that [...]
Earlier this week we looked at the ways in which two right-wing gubernatorial candidates in the Midwest were using opposition to high speed rail in their campaigns. Which raises the question for us Californians, who are in the midst of a campaign to elect Arnold Schwarzenegger’s replacement, of how HSR is going to play in [...]
Note from Robert: The California Labor Federation asked me to post this on the blog, and I am more than happy to oblige them. Please note that this blog has not and likely will not endorse any candidate for office, although you shouldn’t have to guess too hard about who my choice will be. Billionaire [...]
I can’t say this is an unexpected development, given her right-wing politics and her residency in Atherton, but Meg Whitman criticized the HSR project yesterday in a short statement emailed to the Sacramento Bee: “Meg believes the state cannot afford the costs associated with high-speed rail due to our current fiscal crisis,” said the Republican [...]
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