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6 hrs ago | Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal

Noted for May 25, 2013

Matthew Yglesias: Obamacare implementation good news : "You heard it here first from me in April, but I want to reiterate that over the next 18 months you're going to read a lot of stories about problems with Affordable Care Act implementations.

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10 hrs ago | Merced Sun-Star

David Mas Masumoto: To valley grads: Fall down seven times, get up eight

Part of your life will always be grounded in the dirt here. Inside all of you lies what is called a placed story; a seed has been planted, then grown into part of your personal history you can not delete.

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14 hrs ago | The First Post

Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Saturday 25 May 2013

MI5 asked Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo if he wanted to work for them just months before the killing, a friend has told the BBC.

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Related Topix: Train Disaster, World News, Pakistan, Asia, Explosion, Drugs

Fri May 24, 2013

The Fresno Bee

Witnesses will testify on high-speed rail to Denham subcommittee at Madera hearing

The chairman of the California High-Speed Rail Authority board is being asked by a congressional subcommittee to provide a detailed account of how the state agency plans to spend nearly $4 billion it has received from the federal government.

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Related Topix: Madera, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Fresno, CA, Hanford, CA

Wall Street Journal

Allysia Finley: A Farmers' Rebellion Lifts the California GOP

Democrats were writing obituaries for California's GOP after winning a supermajority in the state legislature last November, thus gaining veto-proof power to raise taxes.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Representative Kevin McCarthy, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Jim Costa, Democrat, California, California Government, Opinion

CaHSR Blog

Why Start HSR in the Central Valley?

This blog has answered that question repeatedly . But it's good to see California Forward put together its own answer to the question, featuring Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin: They make some excellent points here.

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Korea Herald

Korea model case of high-speed train policy: vice minister

LEIPZIG, Germany - Korea's experience in building and operating its own bullet trains offers a model case for other countries to study, Vice Transport Minister Yeo Hyung-koo said in Germany.

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Related Topix: World News, Germany, South Korea,

Thu May 23, 2013

Rail PAC

Why California,Nevada and Arizona are the best places for High Speed Rail

This isn't just my opinion. The Brooking Institute, a Washington based "Think Tank" came to this conclusion in a paper it released in October 2009.

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Related Topix: California, us Travel, North America Travel, Los Angeles Travel, Travel

ClayCord.com

U.S., California Needs High Speed Rail to Compete Globally, Reduce Pollution, Official Says

A top transportation official said today that the United States must remain dedicated to building high-speed rail systems to confront pollution, population increases and competition from rest of the world.

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Related Topix: California, us Travel, Travel, Merced, CA

Pleasanton Weekly

High speed rail system needed or 'we don't have a Silicon Valley,' says rail association chief

A top transportation official said Wednesday that the United States must remain dedicated to building high-speed rail systems to confront pollution, population increases and competition from rest of the world.

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Related Topix: us Travel, Travel, California, San Francisco, CA

The Nation

Yingluck drums up Japanese investment for Dawei, rail projects

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has invited Japanese investors to join the Dawei Deep Sea Port project in Myanmar, while Japanese businesses have expressed an interest in bidding for satellite and high-speed rail projects in Thailand, the PM's secretary-general said Thursday.

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Wed May 22, 2013

IcStafford

A vision of a high-speed train pulling into the proposed Curzon Street station in Birmingham

A poll of 2,000 small Birmingham businesses revealed two-thirds believe the A 33 billion HS2 high-speed rail link is a waste of money .

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Related Topix: Outsourcing, Science / Technology, Internet

Oakland Tribune

John Horgan: Ongoing White House woes give hope to fast-train foes

Foiled and discouraged by the results of last November's election as Democrats held the U.S. Senate as well as the White House, the anti-HSR forces have been encouraged by the recent spate of damaging scandals afflicting the Obama Administration.

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Related Topix: US News, San Francisco, CA

Daily Record

Travelin' Man

Modern Spain boasts a sleek high-speed train, the Ave, which can whisk you from Madrid to Sevilla in a hour.

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Related Topix: Europe, Spain, World News, Home Gardening, Home

RecordNET

Rail projects mean thousands of jobs

There are roughly $2 billion in passenger rail construction and improvement projects coming in the next year, including at least $300 million of spending earmarked for small businesses, for the Bay Area and Central Valley.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, San Joaquin, CA, Stockton, CA, Merced, CA

Merced Sun-Star

Families have lots of options to ride rails

Since 1971, Amtrak has carried most of California's passenger rail traffic on both standard long distance routes and short distance urban light rail routes.

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Related Topix: Livermore, CA, Yosemite Valley, CA

Tue May 21, 2013

San Diego Source

Court's hit at Brown actually helps him

Normally, it's uncomfortable at best to hear a federal judge - let alone a panel of three - thunder criticism from the bench.

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Related Topix: Jerry Brown, US Governors, US News, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, US Supreme Court

Channelnewsasia.com

Proposed high-speed rail network a high investment for Laos

High-speed railway lines connecting Thailand, Laos and China might soon become a reality after the Thai cabinet met with its Lao counterparts in Chiang Mai earlier this week.

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Related Topix: Laos, Southeast Asia, World News, Thailand,

Mon May 20, 2013

Daily Mail

World's most dramatic city as you've never seen it before: Stunning...

World's most dramatic city as you've never seen it before: Stunning timelapse video of Dubai shows hustle and bustle of life around skyscrapers and mosques It is the playground of the rich where ostentatious wealth is flaunted, the skyscrapers reach the skies and the sun never seems to stop shining.

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Related Topix: Travel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Travel, Middle East Travel, United Arab Emirates Travel

Daily Herald

Amtrak chugging away at expansion, high-speed rail

It's a sultry day in Naperville, and the heat bounces off the station platform concrete.

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Related Topix: us Travel, North America Travel, Los Angeles Travel, Travel, Chicago Travel