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"content": "\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/bullet-trains-low-operating-costs-are-elephant-room-experts-say-15973\">\u003cstrong>California Watch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By hitting the reset button, Gov. 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Brown installed Dan Richard, an official with political and transportation industry connections, as new board chairman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More importantly, the California High-Speed Rail Authority dramatically revamped its business plan, slashing as much as \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/new-bullet-train-plan-shaves-30b-cost-15598\" target=\"_blank\">$30 billion\u003c/a> from the price tag for building the San Francisco-to-Los Angeles system – from $98 billion to as little as $68 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But none of those changes addressed what a panel of outside financial experts has styled “the elephant in the room” for California’s proposed high-speed rail system – its extraordinarily low projected operating costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the bullet train project is to pencil out, it must operate far more economically than any high-speed rail system in the world, according to the experts, who include former World Bank executive William Grindley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless these extraordinary economies actually are achieved, the train will require alarmingly high annual operating subsidies “forever,” as the experts wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cc-hsr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> last month. The annual operating deficit could top $2 billion, they wrote. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rail authority disputes the experts’ conclusions. The issue is of crucial importance, because by law, the state is forbidden from subsidizing the bullet train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We showed that their (projected) operating costs and revenue costs per mile were significantly lower than what anybody anywhere in the world had ever been able to achieve,” said Alan Bushell, a retired technology executive and co-author of the study. Other authors are retired Stanford University economics professor Alain Enthoven and Silicon Valley financial expert William Warren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rail authority’s business plans indicate that the bullet train would cost about 10 cents per passenger mile to operate, Bushell said in a recent interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means it would cost 10 cents to carry one passenger one mile on the rail system. But international high-speed rail systems cost on average about 43 cents per passenger mile, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have to have worked some incredible operating efficiencies to justify those kinds of costs,” Bushell said of California’s rail planners. “I doubt they have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The financial experts’ study reviewed operating cost data for international bullet trains, including reports compiled by the Spanish banking group BBVA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experts found the world’s lowest operating costs were in Italy – about 34 cents per passenger mile. Highest costs were in Germany and Japan – 50 cents per passenger mile. In the U.S., Amtrak’s Acela Express, a high-speed line linking Washington, D.C., and Boston, costs about 44 cents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rail authority “insists loudly that the High Speed Rail service will be run at a profit from an operating point of view,” the experts wrote. “… They reach this conclusion because they dramatically understate operating costs, which our analysis shows will be much higher.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rail authority contends that its operating cost projections are sound, derived from a sophisticated computer model. 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Eventually, those who didn’t were prosecuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonds was indicted on perjury and obstruction charges in 2007, months after he set the home run record in his last season as a Giant. In April, after a three-week trial, he was convicted of obstruction, with the jury deadlocking on perjury charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal takedown of BALCO led to many reforms, including toughened steroid testing programs, harsher penalties for steroid dealing, and new drug education programs in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But from the start, punishments for the people caught up in BALCO have not been severe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Conte, the mastermind of the BALCO drug conspiracy, pleaded guilty to steroid dealing and served four months in a federal work camp. Then-U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan said the law didn’t allow a longer sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick Arnold, the chemist who pleaded guilty to creating the designer steroid called “the clear,” served three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Anderson, Bonds’ weight trainer, spent more than a year behind bars, but most of that was for contempt of court because he refused to testify about Bonds and steroids. His sentence for steroid dealing was three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those defendants were sentenced by Judge Illston, who presided over most BALCO cases. Defendants who drew another judge have fared worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones, the Olympic superstar, was prosecuted in New York for lying to investigators about her use of BALCO steroids and for her role in an unrelated check forgery scheme. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>from \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/bonds-sentencing-will-mark-end-balco-steroids-scandal-14088\">\u003cstrong>California Watch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bicycle racer Tammy Thomas lied to a grand jury about her use of steroids, then fought perjury charges in court. Convicted, she was sentenced to house arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the same story for elite track coach Trevor Graham, who lied to a federal agent trying to unpack the BALCO steroids scandal: Found guilty, he too was put on house arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50227\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/barry_bonds.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50227\" title=\"barry_bonds\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/12/barry_bonds-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">artalog/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, tomorrow in San Francisco, the same federal judge who showed mercy to those sports figures must sentence a far more famous athlete convicted of equivocating about banned drugs: Barry Bonds, the former Giants slugger and holder of baseball’s career home run record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors want \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/prosecutors-seek-prison-time-barry-bonds-13994\">Bonds imprisoned for 15 months\u003c/a> for dodging a grand jury’s questions about his use of designer steroids from the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up to now, Judge Susan Illston has balked at imprisoning athletes for lying about banned drugs. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she is consistent, Bonds also will avoid prison on hisconviction for obstruction of justice, said New York defense lawyer Patrick Mullin, an expert on federal sentencing issues. But by law, “she has no obligation to be consistent – (sentencing) is a case-by-case situation,” he said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, more than half of the defendants convicted of obstruction of justice in federal court serve some prison time, Mullin said, citing U.S. Sentencing Commission data.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>The judge might conclude that a prison term for Bonds would remind future prospective grand jury witnesses that they are going to face some penalties if they lie under oath.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Peter Keane, a Golden Gate University law school professor who has followed the case, said the judge might find important differences between Bonds and the other defendants who lied about using BALCO drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called Thomas and Graham “hapless characters,” neither wealthy nor powerful, whose careers were ruined by felony convictions: Graham, former coach of Marion Jones and other Olympic stars, is banned from track, and Thomas, a law school graduate, cannot get a law license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bonds was the “big enchilada” of BALCO, Keane said – a multimillionaire celebrity sports star who used banned drugs to set a hallowed record and then misled a grand jury about what he had done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are talking about someone intentionally throwing a monkey wrench into the gears of the criminal justice system,” Keane said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge might conclude that a prison term for Bonds would remind future prospective grand jury witnesses that “they are going to face some penalties” if they lie under oath, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever Illston decides, Bonds’ sentencing marks the end of the BALCO scandal, eight years after the Giants slugger and 31 other elite athletes were summoned before a grand jury and questioned about their ties to what was then a little-known Burlingame steroid mill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its core, BALCO was a conspiracy to corrupt elite sports with performance-enhancing drugs that had been designed to beat drug tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Bonds, its famous customers included Jones, winner of three gold medals at the 2000 Olympics; NFL linebacker Bill Romanowski, a four-time Super Bowl champion; and American League Most Valuable Player Jason Giambi, the former Oakland Athletics star.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most athletes told the grand jury the truth about their use of banned drugs. Eventually, those who didn’t were prosecuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonds was indicted on perjury and obstruction charges in 2007, months after he set the home run record in his last season as a Giant. In April, after a three-week trial, he was convicted of obstruction, with the jury deadlocking on perjury charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal takedown of BALCO led to many reforms, including toughened steroid testing programs, harsher penalties for steroid dealing, and new drug education programs in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But from the start, punishments for the people caught up in BALCO have not been severe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Conte, the mastermind of the BALCO drug conspiracy, pleaded guilty to steroid dealing and served four months in a federal work camp. Then-U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan said the law didn’t allow a longer sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick Arnold, the chemist who pleaded guilty to creating the designer steroid called “the clear,” served three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Anderson, Bonds’ weight trainer, spent more than a year behind bars, but most of that was for contempt of court because he refused to testify about Bonds and steroids. His sentence for steroid dealing was three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those defendants were sentenced by Judge Illston, who presided over most BALCO cases. Defendants who drew another judge have fared worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones, the Olympic superstar, was prosecuted in New York for lying to investigators about her use of BALCO steroids and for her role in an unrelated check forgery scheme. She was sentenced to six months in prison. “It’s wrong to cheat and to lie about the cheating,” Judge Kenneth Karas told her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The toughest BALCO sentence was served by Troy Ellerman, lawyer for BALCO Vice President James Valente. He pleaded guilty to leaking grand jury documents to San Francisco Chronicle reporters for news stories. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White sentenced him to 30 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Cardoza, a Walnut Creek lawyer who represented several prosecution witnesses in the Bonds case, said the former ballplayer already has been punished severely by the damage BALCO has wrought on his reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonds was one of the greatest baseball players of his era, but the trial showed he was a drug cheat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has “gravely affected his ability to get into (baseball’s) Hall of Fame,” Cardoza said. “I don’t believe he will see the hall in his lifetime, because he used steroids to reach a lot of the records he broke. … That is the biggest punishment there could be for Barry Bonds. I believe if he could trade the hall for jail time, he would take that trade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lance Williams is an investigative reporter for California Watch, a project of the non-profit Center for Investigative Reporting. Find more California Watch reporting \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/critics-aim-end-ranked-choice-voting-after-sf-mayoral-race-13571\">\u003cstrong>California Watch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranked-choice voting was the cure for what ails American politics, boosters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/ballot-being-cast-in-box-getty-300x3001.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/11/ballot-being-cast-in-box-getty-300x3001.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ballot-being-cast-in-box-getty-300x300\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-47199\">\u003c/a>Now in use in four California cities, this new voting system was supposed to increase voter turnout, stanch the flow of special interest money and encourage high-minded, positive campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it didn’t play out that way in the biggest ranked-choice election yet – the 2011 San Francisco mayoral race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turnout was down, the worst in a competitive race \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/13/BAHP1LSSG9.DTL\">in about 35 years\u003c/a>, as the San Francisco Chronicle noted. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent soft money committees, financed by big corporations and labor unions, spent heavily, ducking the city's tough donation limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the campaign itself, challengers pounded away at acting Mayor Ed Lee. 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Some critics said it burdened voters whose native language wasn’t English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Lee, executive director of the Chinese American Voters Education Committee, was \u003ca href=\"http://www.asianweek.com/2004/12/24/rcv-the-asian-exclusion-act-%E2%80%94-or-inclusion-act/\">particularly harsh\u003c/a>, likening ranked-choice voting to the Chinese Exclusion Act, the 19th-century law that banned Chinese immigration into the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, even before the votes were counted this time around, proponents were mounting a defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day before the election, Rob Richie, executive director of FairVote, a nonprofit that promotes the system, distributed an e-mail arguing that ranked-choice voting was responsible for increasing the number of racial minorities on the Board of Supervisors from four to eight. He claimed the new system had made the city’s electorate more interested in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco voters also have grown more engaged in these RCV elections,” he wrote, using an acronym for the system. That’s because “far fewer voters now skip city races,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richie also distributed an opinion article by former Supervisor Matt Gonzalez, who argued that the ranked-choice system had promoted “old-fashioned door-to-door politics and coalition building” in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics saw only record-low turnout and a barrage of hit-piece political ads, as Lee’s 10 main challengers tried to get some traction in the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an e-mail, critic Tony Santos, former San Leandro mayor, cited “the negative campaigning going on in the SF Mayor’s race” as proof that ranked-choice voting was oversold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was “a good deal of negative campaigning involving Mayor Ed Lee,” he wrote. “Recall, Fairvote states (ranked-choice voting) reduces negative campaigning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tell that to Mayor Lee and his supporters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oddly, politics in Oakland may build momentum for repealing ranked-choice voting in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Oakland mayor’s race last year, the ranked-choice system allowed City Councilmember Jean Quan to overtake better-financed front-runner Don Perata. 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The proposal is being fronted by city Supervisors Sean Elsbernd and Mark Farrell, who calls the system a “failed experiment.” They hope to put the issue to voters next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents have a good shot, said Charles Marsteller, former head of Common Cause in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regardless of its merits, ranked-choice voting will probably be repealed,” he said in an interview. Ordinary voters struggle with the system because “it’s complicated,” he said. And politicians and political professionals quickly grew to dislike it because its results were so unpredictable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to estimate outcomes with ranked-choice voting,” Marsteller said. “You don’t know if the polls are right. The political consultants don’t like it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was the first city in California to enact the system, which gives voters three weighted choices for each office on the ballot. 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