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High-speed rail has long been of interest for Californians, as public transit is oftentimes the fastest and easiest mode of transportation. However, public transit projects that are carried out incorrectly could leave taxpayers on the hook for hundreds of millions...

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CA Taxpayers Paying Wildly Inflated Costs for Public Employees’ Health Plans

September 9, 2019 7:03 amSeptember 9, 2019 7:04 am

While private sector employers and workers are spending a bigger share of their income on their own health insurance plans, they don’t know they are also spending a bigger share of their income on public employees’ health plans. “Spending 52...

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LA’s Purple Line Subway Expansion: Under a Public School, Through Methane Zone and Abandoned Oil Wells

June 24, 2019 2:06 amJune 25, 2019 6:11 am

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is expanding a line of the Los Angeles subway system directly beneath the historic Beverly Hills High School, through ground littered with more than 80 abandoned oil wells and saturated with methane gas and...

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California’s Purple Line Extension Must Be Stopped

CA Taxpayers Paying Wildly Inflated Costs for Public Employees’ Health Plans

LA’s Purple Line Subway Expansion: Under a Public School, Through Methane Zone and Abandoned Oil Wells