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SF Housing Finance Authority Drops $20 Billion Bond Effort

August 14, 2024 4:52 pmAugust 14, 2024 4:52 pm

The Bay Area Housing Finance Authority (BAHFA) today dropped its campaign to pass a $20 billion so-called affordable housing bond. Facing the almost certain loss at the polls, the BAHFA board met in closed session and unanimously decided that – on...

SF Housing Finance Authority Bungles Boondoggle Bond: $12 Billion Dollar ‘Mathematical Error’

August 12, 2024 2:30 amAugust 12, 2024 2:31 am

Sometimes, government agencies and the concept of math are not the best of friends. The state’s high speed rail program budget to complete the entire project has ballooned to upwards of $180 billion dollars. It was supposed to cost $33...

Orwellian: Gavin Newsom’s ’10 Ways California Leads the Nation’

July 19, 2024 2:45 amJuly 19, 2024 7:32 am

Gavin Newsom claims California simply has no peers, across the spectrum. Newsom claims in an email Thursday: California has a “Golden economy” despite having a record $45 to $73 billion budget deficit and more than $1.5 trillion in unfunded public...

30 Miles of Tunnels Proposed for High Speed Rail: Can You Dig It?

June 29, 2024 2:00 pmJune 29, 2024 2:01 pm

The consistently accurate and forward looking board of the California High Speed Rail Authority has decided that it is a good idea to dig 30 miles of tunnels to connect Burbank to Palmdale. The purely political zig-zag to include Palmdale...

Cities Climate Leadership Group: The Dementia is in the Details

April 22, 2024 2:45 amApril 22, 2024 11:23 am

First off, despite the headline, this article is not about Joe Biden. But is about something as nearly as terrifying as having a rattled and addled president leading the free world. It’s about the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, a...

California Press Releases, An April Fool’s Paradise

April 2, 2024 6:38 am

Each year on April 1st, also known as April Fools Day, I try to write a piece of satire to showcase some of the absurdities encountered in agricultural irrigation in California. I generally start the piece early in the year...

High Stealth Rail: Where Did the Rest of It Go?

March 31, 2024 2:47 amMarch 31, 2024 8:34 am

In 2008 voters passed Proposition 1A, directing the California High-Speed Rail Authority (Authority) to construct an electrified 494-mile-long rail system connecting the mega regions of Los Angeles and San Francisco to the growing cities of the Central Valley. This is...