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California Sells Another $600M in Bonds for High-Speed Rail

SACRAMENTO — California sold $600 million in bonds Tuesday to help pay for building high-speed rail even as lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledge challenges to completing the project. The bond money is a key source of funding for the troubled rail system, which has been beset by cost overruns...

Don’t Leave California’s Climate Goals Stuck in Traffic

Remember the last time you were stuck in traffic, and you were late for something really important? Well, that’s where California’s climate goals are without the completion of our high-speed rail project designed to alleviate California’s traffic congestion and the resulting air quality effects. Having built most of California’s utility-scale...

California: Trump Plan to Take Back Rail Money ‘Disastrous’

SACRAMENTO — Leaders of California's high-speed rail project told the Trump administration Monday its plans to withhold or claw back $3.5 billion in federal money for the project was "legally indefensible" and "disastrous policy." Terminating the money "would cause massive disruption, dislocation, and waste, damaging the region and endangering the...

Drive 100 MPH on I-5?, Highway 99? Bill Creates Valley Autobahn.

State Sen. John Moorlach (R-Costa Mesa) introduced a bill Friday that would add new lanes to I-5 and Highway 99 with no posted speed limit. Moorlach told Los Angeles television station KTLA he came up with the idea in part to help ease traffic and reduce greenhouse gases, but also...

Walters: Has Newsom Become Governor Gaslight?

“Gaslight” was a 1938 British play, set in the 1880s, about a man who manipulates his wife into believing she is going insane to suppress her suspicions about crimes he is committing. Two years later, it became a British movie and in 1944 an American version, starring Charles Boyer and...

Trump to California: Send High-Speed Rail Billions Back to DC

First, President Donald Trump tweeted criticism Tuesday of both California's high-speed rail project and the state's participation in a multistate lawsuit challenging his emergency declaration to pay for a U.S.-Mexico border wall. Then, later in the day, the Trump Administration notified the California High-Speed Rail Authority via letter that it would terminate...

Newsom: Bullet Train Will Only Go Through Valley

SACRAMENTO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday he's abandoning a plan to build a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco, a project with an estimated cost that has ballooned to $77 billion. "Let's be real," Newsom said in his first State of the State address. "The...

On High-Speed Rail, Will the Real Gov. Newsom Please Stand Up?

Gavin Newsom has said more than once that he wants California's high-speed rail project completed between the San Joaquin and Silicon valleys. "It's not a train to nowhere," Newsom told George Skelton of the Los Angeles Times in October. "It's insulting to suggest the Central Valley is nowhere. This is...

Costa Says Dem Takeover of Congress Good for High-Speed Rail

As Rep. Jim Costa prepares for the 116th Congress, he remains bullish on the future of high-speed rail in California. The Fresno Democrat has always supported the bullet train and publicly taken on its critics. The estimated $77 billion dollar project is in the midst of construction in and around...

Newsom Waffles on Valley Appointments to University Boards

Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom hedged on a campaign promise to appoint Valley members to the University of California and California State University boards. Newsom paid Fresno his first visit since winning election last month. He appeared at three events during the day. Newsom said he couldn’t make a Valley appointment, even...

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