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Grim LAT: Bullet train $25B short. Dim Sac Bee: What $25B? All soon to be well!
On Monday, a Sacramento judge dealt a devastating setback to the California bullet train. The most serious of several obstacles in two decisions released by Judge Michael Kenny was his ruling that the $68 billion project didn’t have a legal
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Dan Morain (aka George Skelton Jr.) has bullet train ‘scoop’
So a Sacramento Superior Court judge agrees with Quentin Kopp, the father of California’s bullet train, that how the state is pursuing the project flouts state law. So the judge tells the state it has to have all the funds
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Bullet train folly inspires sci-fi-esque breakthrough?
The lead story on Drudge for part of the weekend was about SpaceX and Telsa inventor-guru-visionary Elon Musk championing Hyperloop, a new type of travel system that he claims could move people faster than the speed of sound. That may
Read MoreBill Lockyer should make like Bulworth in his last 19 months
June 4, 2013 By Chris Reed News that state Treasurer Bill Lockyer will retire when his current term expires in January 2015 has produced plenty of tributes to Lockyer’s smarts and tenacity, and plenty of pushback from people who say
Read MoreNo, Sac Bee, bullet train doesn’t have moral high ground
April 6, 2013 By Chris Reed The Sacramento Bee’s editorial Friday lambasting House Republicans for opposing using borrowed federal money to build California’s bullet train was noteworthy for its tone. The Bee editorial board seems to be under the deluded
Read MoreBullet train: Is L.A. Times’ beat reporter ashamed of edit page?
March 28, 2013 By Chris Reed There’s been quite a bit of good reporting done on the bullet-train fiasco. Mike Rosenberg of the San Jose Mercury-News and Lance Williams of California Watch jump to mind. But Ralph Vartabedian of the
Read MoreOnly 54% oppose bullet train? Sheesh
March 22, 2013 By Chris Reed When word came out Thursday night that a new PPIC poll showed the public was against the bullet train fiasco, I wasn’t surprised. But only 54 percent? Wow. Here’s John Myers’ account: “The survey
Read MoreKFI’s John & Ken discuss ‘Browndoggle’ with CWD’s Chris Reed
March 16. 2013 In an interview with CalWatchdog contributor Chris Reed, KFI 640 AM’s John and Ken discussed the fiasco that is the California bullet-train project, which they call the “Browndoggle.” The interview begins at the 5:35 p.m. point of
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