At long last, Assemblyman Jim Patterson (R-Fresno) is getting his High-Speed Rail audit. The Joint Committee on Legislative Audit voted unanimously to move ahead with an examination on the estimated $67 billion project. That estimation for the first 119-mile segment, from Fresno to San Jose, increased earlier this month by...
Stop the Spin. Give Us the Truth on High-Speed Rail.
Gov. Jerry Brown likes trains. And, as he said Thursday in his final State of the State address, he likes "high-speed trains even better." Fine. I like trains, too. But I like facts even better. Since workers turned the first shovel of dirt on California's High-Speed Rail project, nary a cost...
Stop the Spin. Give Us the Truth on High-Speed Rail.
Gov. Jerry Brown likes trains. And, as he said Thursday in his final State of the State address, he likes "high-speed trains even better." Fine. I like trains, too. But I like facts even better. Since workers turned the first shovel of dirt on California's High-Speed Rail project, nary a cost...
Walters: Legislature's Employees Should Be Allowed to Unionize
In his Jan. 22 CALmatters column, Dan Walters points out that it was the young Gov. Jerry Brown who more than four decades ago "decreed that public employees had the right to join unions and bargain for salaries and other working conditions." Brown's logic, Walters writes, "for extending collective bargaining...
Walters: Legislature's Employees Should Be Allowed to Unionize
In his Jan. 22 CALmatters column, Dan Walters points out that it was the young Gov. Jerry Brown who more than four decades ago "decreed that public employees had the right to join unions and bargain for salaries and other working conditions." Brown's logic, Walters writes, "for extending collective bargaining...