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Today we’re gonna party like it’s 2008 – at least if you need to fill up on gas. In California, the average price for a gallon of 87 octane is now $3.85, with many locations reporting they’re at or above $4 – a mark not reached since the fateful summer of 2008, when prices topped [...]
Does that look like freedom to you? Apparently it does to the far right. This completely ridiculous and insane George Will column attacking trains as somehow being antithetical to freedom has been making the rounds today: So why is America’s “win the future” administration so fixated on railroads, a technology that was the future two [...]
I’m not surprised to see Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson make an uninformed attack on high speed rail. It’s another sad sign of how massively out of touch with reality and evidence the beltway media have become in this country. Samuelson’s ostensible argument is that high speed rail crates no new economic value. It’s [...]
Caltrain’s crisis, already dire, is worsening. Last week Caltrain announced it faced a $30 million deficit that would lead to crippling, death-spiral inducing cuts later this year, basically providing just weekday commute services on the route and nothing else. Saving Caltrain is essential. But that effort is harmed by the emergence in recent years of [...]
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