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Katy Grimes: Regardless of cost, the Obama Administration is behind California’s plan to build a High-Speed Rail system, according to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. “Despite a series of a cautionary reports by outside agencies and groups, the Obama administration is
Read MoreWhy Has Oil and Gas Boom Skipped CA?
FEB. 8, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI New extraction technologies are creating an oil and gas boom that is lifting the economics of several states, as reported by the Wall Street Journal’s recent article “Oil and Gas Boom Lifts U.S. Economy.”
Read MoreDisinformation Floods Delta Water War
FEB. 7, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Ready for another phantom “drought”? The National Resources Defense Council is. The NRDC’s bogus Delta Smelt lawsuit brought the court-ordered “drought” from 2007 to 2010. Now the NRDC is launching a disinformation campaign to
Read MoreDing, Dong, Redevelopment Is Dead
Feb. 6, 2012 The California Redevelopment Association’s website this week was still up and running and featuring job postings for redevelopment jobs, although the site does report that the association’s annual convention and expo has been canceled. It’s just a
Read MoreLAWeekly: Rail Misses LAX By Mile
Steven Greenhut: Here’s a great story by LA Weekly that highlights the incompetence of government planners: “As they tout a posh redo of the Tom Bradley International Terminal meant to reposition LAX as a travel hub for the new millennium,
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Sowell Crashes CA Bullet Train
John Seiler: I’ve been reading Thomas Sowell for about 35 years now. He’s one of the few economists who can write in clear prose. Check out his columns and “The Thomas Sowell Reader.” Or spend a month of evenings on
Read MoreCap and ‘Train’ Leaves the Station
JAN. 31, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Gov. Jerry Brown just proposed a new idea for financing California’s $100 billion high-speed rail project: Use the fees from the state’s Cap and Trade emission taxation program to fund it. This new hybrid
Read MoreWater Wars Flood L.A. Central Basin
JAN. 30, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Remember “Chinatown,” the murky 1974 movie about the water wars in the Los Angeles Basin in the 1930s, starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway? A January 18 California appeals court water rights case is
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