Richard White Doubles Down on his Flawed Attack on HSR
This just gets more depressing. Richard White, a renowned historian at Stanford University, made a flawed attack on the high speed rail project last spring that had a series of errors and was rooted in...
View ArticleEmbracing Jobs for Kern County
In today’s Bakersfield Californian is an excellent pro-HSR op-ed by John Spaulding, executive secretary of the Building & Construction Trades Council for Kern, Inyo and Mono counties. Titled “We...
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Why the LA Times Should Continue to Support California High Speed Rail
Today the LA Times opinion page asked the public whether they should continue to endorse the project or not: What do you think? Should we come out in favor of this in Friday’s pages, or opposed to...
View ArticleShorter Mercury News: California Doesn’t Need Jobs
California’s current unemployment rate is 11.3%. That’s still a far higher level than the state has seen in decades – and it has been sustained at around that level for at least two years. California...
View ArticleHigh Speed Rail Helps, Not Hurts, the State Budget
One of the biggest problems California faces, well beyond the issue of high speed rail, is a belief that government spending is all cost and no benefit. One only needs to look at Europe, where...
View ArticleHSR as an Energy Lifeline
As we continue to examine the future of the high speed rail project, it’s worth taking a moment to look at its impact on California’s energy needs. As it turns out, HSR will provide significant savings...
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