[aggregation-styles] GovTrack Insider A high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco, reaching speeds of up to 220 miles per hour, was approved in 2008. Intended to connect the second- and 13th-largest cities in the U.S., the 520-mile project was slated to cost $33 billion. It was greenlit after...
Need a Passport? Fresno State Has Got You Covered
The Passport Place at Fresno State has reopened to provide passport services to the public. On Monday, the office welcomed back customers for the first time since closing due to COVID-19 more than a year ago. Service is by appointment only, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays....
Why Being ‘Anti-Media’ Is Now Part of the GOP Identity
[aggregation-styles] FiveThirtyEight There’s little question that the media is one of the least trusted institutions in Republican circles. In the past two decades, trust in traditional media has plummeted — especially among Republicans. According to polling from Gallup, since at least the late 1990s, Republicans have been less likely than...
Zakaria: How Biden’s New Deal Can Really Make America Great Again
[aggregation-styles] Washington Post While Donald Trump claimed he wanted to “Make America Great Again,” President Joe Biden is attempting to actually do it. The former president’s slogan got Americans thinking nostalgically about the 1950s and early ’60s, when the United States dominated the world and its economy produced rising wages...
Pismo Beach Business is Booming with Central Valley Spring Break Visitors
[aggregation-styles] KSBY News With spring break underway in nearby counties, some Central Coast beaches have been seeing a lot of foot traffic over the past week. Many people from the Central Valley and even Southern California are making the trip to Pismo Beach to dip their toes in the sand...
New Report: Fresno State Has Nearly $2 Billion Annual Economic Impact
By Fresno State News Salvador Solorio-Ruiz grew up in Delano, a small Central Valley town where 22% of residents live in poverty, according to the U.S. Census. The son of immigrants, however, was bound for something different when he became the first in his family to graduate from college —...
Santa Clara County Wanted to Stop COVID. So It Fined Businesses 50 Times More Than any Other County
[aggregation-styles] The Mercury News A major construction team on the California bullet train project notified the state rail authority this month that it will not complete a 65-mile section of the future route in Kings County until at least April 14, 2025 — nearly two years after the date that...
Cesar Chavez: How Woke Culture Deals With the Labor Hero’s Complex Legacy
[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times Let me tell you about an American hero who might trouble "woke" culture. He opposed undocumented immigrants to the point of urging his followers to report them to "la migra". He accepted an all-expenses-paid trip from a repressive government and gladly received an award from its...
Opinion: Inequality by Way of Government
[aggregation-styles] Wall Street Journal Often when I make the case for free-market capitalism, I’ll get a head nod or two and then the inevitable comeback: “Yeah, but inequality.” Forget all the great things that capitalism has done, the smartphones we carry, the broadband we use to stream movies, the drugs...
Opinion: Middle-Class Women of Iran Are Disappearing. The US is Partly to Blame
[aggregation-styles] New York Times A few weeks after the Trump administration withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned “brutal men of the regime” in Tehran for oppressing Iranian women who were demanding their rights. “As human beings with inherent dignity and inalienable...