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High-speed rail tapped state funds for unusual lobbying contract - San Jose Mercury News

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High-speed rail tapped state funds for unusual lobbying contract San Jose Mercury News By Mike Rosenberg In an extremely unusual use of taxpayer money, the leaders behind California's $99 billion high-speed train quietly hired a lobbyist to sway the Legislature -- the same politicians who appointed them to build the project in the first ... Calif. high-speed rail scaled back to surviveKorea Times Contractors OK'd to bid on Fresno-area bullet train constructionCalifornia Watch Should California bite the bullet on high-speed rail?Los Angeles Times 89.3 KPCC -OCRegister -Fresno Business Journal all 148 news articles »

New rail head promises to mend bridges - Hanford Sentinel

New rail head promises to mend bridges Hanford Sentinel By Seth Nidever Hanford Sentinel | Posted: Friday, February 3, 2012 12:00 pm | (0) Comments Dan Richard, newly elected chairman of the California High-Speed Rail Authority Board of Directors, pledged Thursday to meet with Kings County leaders to ... and more »

Our View: 'Bullet train becoming 'Moonbeam Express' - Appeal-Democrat

Our View: 'Bullet train becoming 'Moonbeam Express' Appeal-Democrat Jerry Brown wants to use anti-global-warming carbon taxes to fund California's much-maligned high-speed rail project. In a brazen denial of the obvious, Gov. Jerry Brown now insists the proposed California high-speed rail can be built for much less ... Bullet train becoming 'Moonbeam Express'Desert Dispatch all 2 news articles »

Don Cornelius remembered: Kenneth Gamble touts 'Soul Train' pride - Los Angeles Times (blog)

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Don Cornelius remembered: Kenneth Gamble touts 'Soul Train' pride Los Angeles Times (blog) "But when he moved to California and 'Soul Train' became a national sensation, we could send an artist like Billy Paul or Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes and you got instant national exposure, which became something that helped increase record sales, ... Don Cornelius' legacy lives on in his hometown of ChicagoWashington Post Soul Train's Don Cornelius dead in apparent suicideChannel 6 News Online Friends say 'Soul Train' legend was long depressed, possibly bipolarChicago Sun-Times This Beat Goes all 799 news articles »

How the west was railroaded - The Australian

How the west was railroaded The Australian ONE of the great forgotten milestones in train travel occurred on May 10, 1869, when two railroad lines -- one built from the east coast, the other from the Pacific -- met in the blistering deserts of Utah. Dignitaries from across the US arrived to ...