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Bullet 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

Good and bad news on bullet train(s) front

CalWatchdog Staff March 24, 2013

March 24, 2013 By Chris Reed As I wrote last week, the budget that Senate Democrats have embraced contains so little discretionary funding for California’s bullet-train project that it is impossible to see how the $68 billion project ever gets

Only 54% oppose bullet train? Sheesh

CalWatchdog Staff March 21, 2013

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

In same spirit as ‘courtesy flush,’ ‘courtesy vote’

CalWatchdog Staff March 18, 2013

March 18, 2013 By Chris Reed The fact that on March 6 a member of the bullet train’s board of directors — former San Diego congresswoman Lynn Schenk — had blocked approval of the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s plan to

KFI’s John & Ken discuss ‘Browndoggle’ with CWD’s Chris Reed

CalWatchdog Staff March 16, 2013

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

Did the bullet train die in sequester fallout? Maybe. (Hallelujah!)

CalWatchdog Staff March 10, 2013

March 10, 2013 By Chris Reed The fallout of the sequester continues to be widely discussed, with the conventional wisdom being that President Barack Obama and his political team made a rare and serious miscalculation with their attempts to panic

Train agency ‘raids’ CalPERS for exec talent: Oy vey!

CalWatchdog Staff March 6, 2013

March 6, 2013 By Chris Reed When the press release came out Monday that the California High-Speed Rail Authority had recruited a top executive away from the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, a Tweet from former Los Angeles Times journo

In Spain, bullet train a symbol of government insanity

CalWatchdog Staff March 3, 2013

March 3, 2013 By Chris Reed The Feb. 25 New Yorker magazine had a strikingly downbeat account of the economic hellhole that is Spain. Unemployment is 25 percent — and double that for young adults. One-quarter of the budget is

Most East Coast media misjudge CA bullet train

CalWatchdog Staff February 19, 2013

Feb. 19, 2013 By Chris Reed The immense perception gap between East Coast and West Coast journalists when it comes to reporting on the Golden State was never in sharper relief than in 2003. If you were in California, the

Scandal ‘boring’? Arrogant Jerry Brown drinks his own Kool-Aid

CalWatchdog Staff February 6, 2013

Feb. 6, 2013 By Chris Reed Sacramento is still buzzing over a bizarre and obnoxious scandal in which state parks officials hid $54 million while pressing to close 70 parks, and along comes another scandal in which Cal Fire hides