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Bullet train: Jerry can’t bully Simitian, Lowenthal — or escape the facts
Jerry Brown can bully and bluster and name-call all he wants to revive the deranged assault on sanity that is the bullet-train project, but there are Senate Democrats who just disregard his propaganda...
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Well, looky here: Someone in state media notices Dems are rigid, too
Last week, I wrote the following about the California media’s peculiar media dynamics: So here’s the headline in this morning’s S.F. Chronicle: California GOP out of sync with most state voters. This...
View Article‘Solyndra Times Seven’: A new frame for the bullet-train debacle
The national media have devoted plenty of skeptical attention to California’s bullet-train boondoggle—from the ballooning cost of the California High-Speed Rail Authority project to its shoddy...
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Bullet train derailed? Path to demise looking clear! Woo. Hoo.
Monday’s L.A. Times story with this headline — “Bid to appease bullet train critics may violate law” — and this subhead — “Revisions are in conflict with the ballot measure approved by voters and may...
View ArticleI am on Armstrong & Getty in Bay Area and Sacramento at 9 a.m. Tuesday …...
The bullet train fiasco is the topic. You should be able to reach the live audio link here: http://armstrongandgetty.talk910.com/main.html
View ArticleThe CTA’s pending good deed: It’s going to kill the bullet train
This Chris Reed fella, writing in the L.A. Daily News, has some good news about the California High-Speed Rail Authority: Why would the [California Teachers Association and the California Federation of...
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Bullet train’s cruel charade: getting up the hopes of Orange County’s dopes
I roared with laughter when I saw the alert saying the geniuses at the California High-Speed Rail Authority had changed their minds and added a direct Orange County line back to their revised business...
View ArticleDan Richard and the bullet train: Still putting lipstick on a pig
The narrative that held the California High-Speed Rail Authority had finally figured out a smart path forward thanks to the stewardship of new board Chairman Dan Richard took a huge hit last week when...
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Arnold’s self-loving ode: It’s revealing what he omits — and what he includes
After Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher got national attention for self-righteously quitting the GOP to pursue the San Diego mayor’s seat as an independent, it was inevitable that Arnold Schwarzenegger would...
View ArticleWhose idea was it to push bullet trains? Rahm Emanuel’s doctor brother. I...
“The Escape Artists,” the new book about the Obama administration’s economic policy-making, has an amazing story about who’s responsible for the decision to dump tens of billions of dollars in federal...
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