Pepper Spray Report Delayed at Officers' Request
Images of campus police officers dousing UC Davis students with pepper spray during an Occupy protest last November drew sharp criticism against the university's president and its police force. A report detailing all the procedural missteps of the incident was supposed to go public this week, but a judge put it on hold yesterday.
New Head of California High-Speed Rail Optimistic
California's High-Speed Rail Authority has a new chairman. Dan Richard, a Brown appointee, is now the public face of the plan to build a train that would take riders from San Francisco to Los Angeles in less than three hours. He'll absorb the political heat over questions ranging from the project's $98 billion dollar price tag to its estimated ridership to whether we should go ahead with it at all.