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Video: CalWatchdog in depth — High Speed Rail (2)

CalWatchdog Contributor Kathy Hamilton explains how the California High Speed Rail Authority is destroying farms and dairies as they try to acquire land for the high-speed rail project.

Video: CalWatchdog in depth — High Speed Rail

CalWatchdog Staff July 24, 2014

There’s plenty to fix right now in California – roads, bridges, water systems. It’s a long list and it keeps growing every year. CalWatchdog Contributor Kathy Hamilton asks why do we need a new and extremely expensive rail project that

High-speed rail goes for second segment

Kathy Hamilton July 11, 2014

The California High-Speed Rail Authority is floating a new idea: Start a second high-speed rail segment, but this time fund it using cap-and-trade dollars. The project would stretch from Burbank to Palmdale in the northeast section of the Los Angeles

7 ways James Fallows is wrong about the CA bullet train

Chris Reed July 11, 2014

Writing on The Atlantic’s website, the much-respected journalist/intellectual James Fallows — a Redlands native who knows California better than nearly all other national pundits — has come out as a big fan of the state’s bullet-train project. He promises to

CA economic ranking renews debate

James Poulos July 10, 2014

For those who put a lot of stock in statistics, it’s a good month for California. The Golden State has returned to take its former position among the world’s largest economies. World Bank calculations show California — if it were considered a country —

New suit filed against high-speed rail

Kathy Hamilton June 24, 2014

On June 23, the Transportation Solutions Defense and Education Fund filed a new lawsuit against California’s high-speed rail project. TRANSDEF supports the project, but not the current planning. In a statement explaining the suit, TRANSDEF challenged “the Governor’s fallback funding scheme

More money, problems for CA high-speed rail

James Poulos June 18, 2014

Proponents of California’s much-ballyhooed high-speed rail got a big boost in the state’s new budget. But in every other area where the struggle for its fate is playing out, the project is facing an array of daunting roadblocks. Thanks to Gov. Jerry Brown’s

CA Legislature boosts budget up to $156 billion

James Poulos June 18, 2014

Convinced that California’s fiscal crisis is effectively over, state Democrats led the state Legislature to pass a $156 billion budget. They did so after a round of negotiations that left Sacramento just six hours away from missing the state’s constitutional deadline for

State budget: Governor, lawmakers expected to finalize deal

John June 13, 2014

State lawmakers reached a tentative agreement on the state budget Thursday, after Gov. Jerry Brown caved to Democratic lawmakers’ demands over more funding for in-home support services for elderly and disabled Californians. “We are at this point prepared to bring

Court hears objections to high-speed rail

Kathy Hamilton June 4, 2014

This is Part 2 of a two-part series. Part 1 is here. The first article in this series on the crucial May 23 hearing before the Third District Court of Appeal reported that questions asked by the justices seemed to lean