The weather is causing a delay in my planned trip to the Central Valley. I won’t leave until tomorrow … unless the snow on Route 58 is too bad. I worry the road might be blocked with snow or mud. In the railroad history of California, the weather has played a significant role – snow in the...

OK. It’s time for me to get this “bus” started and head out on the road. Time to go and see what is claimed to be the route of the California high-speed rail system. I’ve wanted to do it for a while and even wrote that I would do so soon … but that was many months ago. The route of the California...

Andrew G. Fried You name it, and someone has tried to stick this community with it. Hog farms. Toxic waste dumps. Prisons. Landfills. Over the past half-century, this corner of northern Los Angeles County has fended off all of them. A decade and a half ago, a group of concerned citizens formed Safe Action...

[CSHRA] – The California High-Speed Rail Authority has identified California Rail Builders as the apparent best value proposer for the design-build services contract for Construction Package 4, the next segment of construction through the counties of Tulare and Kern and the cities of Wasco and...

I don’t get it. Why do the folks who approve the budget of the formerly great State of California have to request a subpoena to get the financial records of the California High Speed Rail Authority? Really? According to a rule of the state Assembly, our representatives must request a subpoena to get...

Assemblyman Scott Wilk Assembly Republican leaders including Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, and Tom Lackey, R-Antelope Valley, have called on Democratic Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins to compel the California High-Speed Rail Authority to produce internal accounting memos relating to the first phase of the...

The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority Commission announced that, through its real estate broker, Matthew Hargrove of CBRE Inc., it has entered into a $72,500,000 purchase and sale agreement with Southern California based Overton Moore Properties for the 59-acre “Trust Property” located...

I’ll never get those three hours back in my life, but I did take the time to watch the video of the California High Speed Rail Authority board meeting of Oct. 6, 2015. In doing so, I am now convinced beyond the shadow of any doubt that all those board members would fail a drug test. This is also true...

I haven’t found the old articles, but years ago there was a problem with folks speeding on Valley Street, 8th Street and Market, too. It looks like history is repeating itself once again. I was at my sister’s home in Happy Valley, and as I was driving toward Lyons Avenue, sure enough I had a young...

The Forest Service received an application on Sept. 8, 2015, from the California High Speed Rail Authority, to study the feasibility of constructing a high speed rail tunnel that the Authority is considering in some proposed alternatives, which would go through the Angeles National Forest and San Gabriel...