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Last year this blog led the fight against the staggering amounts of misinformation put out by opponents of mass transit in their effort to defeat Proposition 1A. Even though these opponents were frequently given room to spout their misleading claims in TV and print reports around the state, whereas pro-HSR forces rarely ever got that [...]
On August 26th AB 3034, after a weeks-long delay, was finally signed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. That bill directed the California High Speed Rail Authority to create a new business plan…by September 1. Giving the Authority merely five days to come up with the new plan. Why the delay? The bill was passed out of the [...]
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, [...]
***See Updates Below*** So after a weekend of frenzied activism to get Arnold to sign AB 3034…the Assembly adjourned for the day without taking action on the bill: With a veto threat looming, lawmakers on Monday missed a deadline to replace November’s $9.9 billion high-speed rail bond ballot measure with a better version. Or did [...]
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