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Back to homepageThe Fed Giveth, Taketh Away
Anthony Pignataro: It’s another day of good news and bad news for the California High Speed Rail Authority, that tiny but plucky state, um, entity charged with building an 800-mile network of bullet trains across California. First the good news:
Read MoreAnother Reason Pringle Should Resign
DEC. 8, 2010 It’s always tough to get back into the reporting grind after a week’s vacation. Well, nearly always – when the California High-Speed Rail Authority is one of your beats, it’s actually quite easy. Waiting for me in
Read MoreRetrospective: Pork OD Kills Water Project
DEC. 1, 2010 By RICHARD TRAINOR When former San Francisco Mayor and California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown said that a “political earthquake” is rumbling in the Central Valley over water he was right on the money, and it seems that
Read MoreWhat Is The AG Waiting For?
Anthony Pignataro: Seriously people, what does it take for the Attorney General’s office to issue a formal opinion on a simple matter like whether Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle and LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority board member Richard Katz violate the
Read MoreRetroactively Documenting Travel!
Anthony Pignataro: There is great irony in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times story on the state Fair Political Practices Commission’s recent investigation into alleged undocumented travel by various members of the California High-Speed Rail Authority (click here to see the investigation
Read MoreDeparted Californians Swing Election
NOV. 2, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Given that a couple of million Californians have left the state in the past 20 years, most of them Republicans, it’s surprising that Democrats didn’t do better. Jerry Brown, as I write, won by
Read MoreNo Attempt There To Hide
Anthony Pignataro: There’s a killer story in today’s Los Angeles Times that reports how California High-Speed Rail Authority have taken numerous oversees trips to see other nation’s bullet trains but haven’t been documenting the trips’ financing. “California High-Speed Rail Authority
Read MoreHard Hats And Enviros Hold Hands
OCT. 14, 2010 Don’t sweat it if you’ve never heard of the Blue-Green Alliance. I had never heard of it either, until a rally Thursday over at the Federal Building in downtown Sacramento for organized labor, Jerry Brown’s gubernatorial campaign
Read MoreRomero Wants Pringle And Katz Out!
Anthony Pignataro: State Senator Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, is pissed. The California High-Speed Rail Authority seems to be doing all of nothing to address the controversy over Board members Richard Katz and Curt Pringle holding “incompatible offices” (the story broke
Read MoreState Opens Dusty Files
OCT. 1, 2010 On Thursday I took a break from high-speed rail controversies and death penalty analysis by walking over to the State Archives. Located a block away from the Capitol, the Archives are home to our state’s most precious
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