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But the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association would prefer you not know that. In what is becoming an unfortunate trend, California journalists are turning their articles over to the right-wing anti-tax brigade, allowing them to spout nonsense but rarely providing important alternative information. In today’s LA Daily News is an article titled California tax bites get [...]

Aug 17th, 2008 | Filed under Uncategorized

Spain’s AVE high speed train service was finally completed between Madrid and Barcelona earlier this year, with the first passengers riding in February. Since then the line has taken 30% of the travel market between Madrid and Barcelona, which was one of the world’s busiest air corridors. That’s a stunning level of ridership that is [...]

Aug 15th, 2008 | Filed under Uncategorized

AB 3034 finally passed the Assembly today on a 54-15 vote. The bill is NOT going to be sent to Arnold Schwarzenegger immediately, though, in hopes that a budget deal will be reached by Saturday. AB 3034 would have been sent to the governor sooner had Senate Republicans not blocked its passage for several weeks, [...]

Aug 13th, 2008 | Filed under Uncategorized

That’s the latest polling numbers from JMM Research on our high speed rail project, as quoted on the front page of the Wall Street Journal today: California has long talked about a high-speed rail line to connect the San Francisco Bay Area to Southern California. After years of chatter about the project, a $10 billion [...]

Aug 12th, 2008 | Filed under Uncategorized