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Much of the recent attack on high speed rail in California, especially by credulous government watchdog agencies like the Legislative Analyst’s Office and the State Auditor, is due to the fact that the extremist House Republican majority is rapidly anti-rail and has cut future high speed rail funding in pursuit of that agenda. For some [...]
Led by the radical extremists in the House of Representatives, the Republican Party has gotten itself a reputation as being vehemently opposed to not just high speed rail, but passenger rail itself. There are still many Republicans around the country, including in the state legislature, who do support HSR. And as the New York Times [...]
At the end of a tumultuous year for high speed rail in California, opponents are increasingly confident they can kill the project and retard California’s hopes of economic recovery and energy independence. But a review of the year about to end shows that the most important factor in shaping high speed rail’s fate hasn’t been [...]
The US House of Representatives held a hearing today, at Jeff Denham’s request, into the California High Speed Rail project. I caught some of the testimony and read some transcripts of the remarks from both witnesses and members of Congress, and I have to agree with the Fresno Bee’s Michael Doyle in his conclusion that [...]
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