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Would it be cheaper to just fly every Californian to Japan?
I follow The Onion on Twitter. It is a news parody site, and it is regularly hilarious. Over the weekend it tweeted, “Ambitious High-Speed Rail Plan Will Fly Americans To Japan To Use Their Trains onion.com/1Am4dk1 #OurAnnualYear.” The linked article talks about an “ambitious” $80 billion plan by President Obama ...
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The seen and the unseen in taxpayer-funded stadiums
City of Industry, a city of only 219 residents in Los Angeles County, recently announced plans to spend $172 million to develop infrastructure for a stadium to host a team that doesn’t exist. The city will spend the funds even if a stadium is never built.Sadly, such taxpayer funded sports stadiums have become all-too-common in … ...
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Other people's money : Davenport back in state supreme court
Author: Daniel Himebaugh The Supreme Court of Washington has once again granted review in Davenport v. Washington Education Association, a case that began as a class action on behalf of public school teachers almost ten years ago. In 2007, PLF supported the teachers as amicus curiae at the U.S. Supreme Court, where the Court upheld … ...