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Have you “liked” Citizens Who Support High Speed Rail in the Central Valley on Facebook yet? You should. While a few shrill voices are predicting doom and gloom for Kings County should the project go through ($100 million would be lost if dairies are affected? Really? Are the tracks somehow going to destroy all dairies [...]
Last year, the City of Hanford, located in Kings County, told the California High Speed Rail Authority they didn’t want tracks going through their city. It interfered with their development plans, they said. OK, said the Authority, they would put the tracks on the edge of town, impacting about 3,000 acres of farmland. That’s a [...]
Today’s LA Times has a good article on concerns among Central Valley farmers with the proposed high speed rail route. These concerns are nothing new; we’ve known for well over a year that farmers would prefer the tracks to stick as closely as possible to existing corridors and not go onto their land. Of course, [...]
One of the most obnoxious things in American politics today is the fact that people now feel free to lie with impunity and just get away with it because the media has stopped calling people liars. We saw this in recent weeks with the first construction segment of the California high speed rail project. Even [...]
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