High Speed Rail – California Globe

Another California Rail Disaster: Over $1 Billion Per Mile for LAX SkyLink, Contractor Sues City

July 15, 2026 12:44 pmJuly 15, 2026 12:44 pm

California taxpayers are once again footing the bill for another Democrat-led rail fiasco, this time at Los Angeles International Airport, where the long-delayed SkyLink Automated People Mover (APM)—just 2.25 miles of elevated track—has ballooned to over $3.3 billion in costs,...

Ringside: The Dismal Economics of Floating Offshore Wind

July 9, 2026 7:00 amJuly 9, 2026 7:01 am

There are at least three ways to evaluate the economic viability of energy projects. The easiest way is to just repeat whatever is in a press release. The other extreme, a mandatory exercise for anyone poised to actually invest and...

Ringside: Choosing the Right Infrastructure Projects Can Deliver Affordable Abundance

July 2, 2026 6:30 amJuly 2, 2026 6:31 am

The reason to socialize a portion of the cost of major infrastructure is so the ratepayer doesn’t have to bear an unaffordable share of the construction financing payments. The broader benefit to society is to achieve greater affordability for what...

California is Filling the Climate Leadership Grift

June 22, 2026 3:01 pmJune 23, 2026 6:46 am

California Governor Gavin Newsom in March 2025 claimed that greenhouse gas emissions are down in California – not just down but “down 20% since 2000.” He attributed it to “state investment from cap and trade spending: “State invests nearly $33 billion...

California’s Billionaire Tax Will Accelerate Its Own Demise

June 8, 2026 12:30 pmJune 8, 2026 12:31 pm

The proposed 2026 Billionaire Tax Act, officially Initiative No. 25-0024, would impose a one-time 5% excise tax on the net worth of anyone with assets over $1 billion who resided in California as of January 1, 2026. Organizers have collected...

Steve Hilton Will Stop the ‘Bullshit’ Train in its Tracks… ‘If only they had laid any…’

May 25, 2026 8:05 amMay 26, 2026 9:57 am

“HERE is the monument to 16 years of failed one party rule. $200 billion over budget, 30 years late – this is not a ‘bullet train’, it’s a bullshit train,” says gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton. “As governor I will stop...

California High-Speed Rail: A Textbook Case of Fiscal Failure Under Controller Malia Cohen

May 21, 2026 6:00 amMay 21, 2026 6:01 am

California’s long-troubled High-Speed Rail project stands as one of the most expensive and least accountable boondoggles in state history. What began as a 2008 voter-approved promise of an 800-mile network for roughly $33 billion has shrunk to a 171-mile Merced-to-Bakersfield...