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Video: CalWatchdog in depth — High Speed Rail (6)
CalWatchDog contributor Kathy Hamilton explains how the High Speed Rail Authority is just not ready and the project is off the rails and on track to spend taxpayer money.
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Video: CalWatchdog in depth — High Speed Rail (5)
CalWatchdog Contributor Kathy Hamilton explains what’s really going on when the High Speed Rail Authority says it wants to use “The Blended System” to make the project work. It’s all about chasing the “free” federal money.
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Video: CalWatchdog in depth — High Speed Rail (4)
CalWatchdog Contributor Kathy Hamilton discusses how the High Speed Rail Authority dismissed rail experts from France in favor of politics. California taxpayers are left paying for it all.
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Video: CalWatchdog in depth — High Speed Rail (3)
CalWatchdog Contributor Kathy Hamilton is concerned about the tone of the Appeals Court hearing she attended concerning lawsuits filed against the California high-speed rail project.
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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.
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Video: CalWatchdog in depth — High Speed Rail
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
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High-speed rail goes for second segment
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
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New suit filed against high-speed rail
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
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Court hears objections to high-speed rail
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
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Appellate court seems to OK high-speed rail
This is Part 1 of a two-part series. Is a green light ahead for California’s high-speed rail project? In a crucial hearing on May 23 before the Third District Court of Appeal, questions asked by the justices seemed to lean
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