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Today was high speed rail day in the State Capitol in Sacramento, with both an Assembly and a Senate hearing on Governor Jerry Brown’s request to uphold the will of the voters and fund HSR construction in 2012. The Assembly hearings made it clear that the Democratic leadership there is strongly in support of the [...]
As the presidential election cycle heats up, Republicans are looking for ways to undermine President Barack Obama. One of their tried and true tactics is to take high profile initiatives of the Obama Administration and poke holes in them, make them look like scandalous wasteful failures rather than bold, innovative, effective projects. Congressional Republicans already [...]
The hearing is underway – you can watch a livestream here. Right now as I post this, California High Speed Rail Authority board chairman Dan Richard is testifying. He is making excellent points. When he was at BART, “we never knew where we would get all our funding.” As he points out, “no regional transportation [...]
Tuesday is the State Senate High Speed Rail hearing in Mountain View – it’s at 7PM at the Center for Performing Arts, 500 Castro Street. Senator Joe Simitian has published the agenda for the hearing and it’s not inspiring confidence that this will be a fair fight: AGENDA: 7:00 p.m. – Brief Welcome: Senators Simitian, [...]
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