California High Speed Rail Authority

A High-Speed Lawsuit? Rail Authority's Email Policy Ignites Firestorm

| Posted 05.22.2012

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This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Lance Williams A congressional committee is investigating California's $68 billion bul...

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Officials Defend Cost Of High-Speed Rail

| Posted 05.04.2012

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This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Lance Williams A report that warned of huge operating deficits for California's bullet...

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The 'Elephant In The Room': Are Bullet Train Costs Drastically Underestimated?

| Posted 05.04.2012

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This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Lance Williams By hitting the reset button, Gov. Jerry Brown bought some time for the ...

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High-Speed Rail Clears Major Hurdle

AP | By SUDHIN THANAWALA and HANNAH DREIER | Posted 04.12.2012

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SAN FRANCISCO -- The authority overseeing efforts to build a high-speed rail system in California approved its revised business plan on Thursday, send...

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California's High-Speed Rail Plan Gets A Makeover

AP | JULIET WILLIAMS | Posted 04.02.2012

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Supporters of California's ambitious high-speed rail project began their hard sell with lawmakers and the public Monday aft...

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Is High-Speed Rail Losing Supporters?

| Posted 05.08.2012

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This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Will Evans With most Californians worried about the state budget and opposed to trigge...

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NO TRAIN PLEASE: Petition To Kill California High-Speed Rail Gains Momentum

Carly Schwartz | Posted 03.27.2012

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California Secretary of State Debra Bowen on Monday approved a petition that would allow voters to decide whether they want the state to move forward ...

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Derailed: Two More Bullet Train Executives Jump Ship

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 02.14.2012

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In the span of a single day, a pair of top officials overseeing the construction of California's high speed rail system announced their intention to l...

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Obama Administration Issues Vote Of Confidence On California High-Speed Rail

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 11.23.2011

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NEW YORK -- Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced on Tuesday that California had secured $928.6 million in funds for the state's high-speed ra...

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Why We Can Afford High-Speed Rail

Lance Simmens | Posted 01.17.2012

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A prominent issue facing California and Californians at this moment is a decision on whether to build a high-speed rail transportation network connecting North and South and all points in between.

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'Shock And Anxiety': State Senator Reacts To High Speed Rail's Price Tag

| Posted 01.09.2012

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This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Lance Williams For years, a Long Beach lawmaker prodded the state's High-Speed Rail Au...

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High Speed Rail: Too Much, Too Late

Jonathan Harris | Posted 01.09.2012

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I would love to live in a country with an interconnected network of high-speed rail, which would modernize our infrastructure and get me to L.A. in three hours. However, now is not the time for this project.

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$100 BILLION DOLLARS

AP | By JULIET WILLIAMS | Posted 01.01.2012

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A business plan released Tuesday gives the most detailed look to date at California's ambitious plan to link its major cities by...

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Will Lawsuits Derail California's Bullet Train Project?

| Posted 11.19.2011

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This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Stephanie Rice Even if state officials can scrape together the billions of dollars nee...

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California Bullet Train Regulation Headed For A High-Speed Failure

| Posted 11.06.2011

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This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Sam Pearson The California High-Speed Rail Authority is facing increased scrutiny from...

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Bullet Train Costs Skyrocket

| Posted 10.29.2011

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This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Tim Sheehan For two years, the California High-Speed Rail Authority said it could buil...

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California High-Speed Rail Faces Trouble In Palo Alto -- And More In Washington

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 10.24.2011

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ATHERTON, Calif. -- Walk down Ashfield Road in this well-heeled town of 7,000 on the San Francisco Peninsula and you'll find million-dollar homes surr...

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Is Central Valley High-Speed Rail A 'Bridge To Nowhere'?

| David Siders | Posted 08.05.2011

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This story comes courtesy of California Watch. By David Siders FRESNO - The plan for high-speed rail in California is to start on the Fresno sid...

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Rain, Snow and the Prospects for 30/10 in 2011

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The end-of-year deluge is not getting me down. Instead, I see the storms, which have blanketed the East in snow and LA in rain, as more evidence of our need to build the subway.

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California's Model "Newocrat": David Crane's Crusade for Pension Reform and High-Speed Rail

Nathan Gardels | Posted 05.25.2011

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Those who inhabit a paradigm of fiscal responsibility combined with investment in infrastructure and education are "newocrats." California has such a model "newocrat" in the person of David Crane.

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