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The National Weather Service says the chill broke records \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?wfo=mtr&pil=RER&sid=MTR&version=0\" target=\"_blank\">only in Salinas\u003c/a>, where a 28 degree reading broke the mark of 29, set in 2004. But though temperature records stayed intact throughout the rest of the Bay Area, it was still \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?wfo=mtr&pil=PNS&sid=MTR&version=0\" target=\"_blank\">the coldest morning of the season so far \u003c/a>throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coldest temperatures were recorded in the region's interior valleys, with lows in the mid- to upper 20s in many locations in outlying Sonoma, Marin, Alameda, Contra Costa, and Santa Clara counties. Most locations near the bay and coast stayed in the mid-30s to low 40s. 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"disqusTitle": "Judge Grants Partial Victory to Foes of California Bullet Train",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/02/02/calif-high-speed-rail-authority-elects-new-chairman/high-speed-rail20111118/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55330\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-55330\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/02/high-speed-rail20111118-e1385423679307.jpg\" alt=\"Artist's conception of California bullet train. (California High-Speed Rail Authority)\" width=\"640\" height=\"367\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist's conception of California bullet train. (California High-Speed Rail Authority)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Sacramento County judge has issued a pair of rulings that are likely slow down the California High-Speed Rail Authority's work on the first segment of the bullet train system, slated for the San Joaquin Valley. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superior Court Judge Michael Kenny blocked the use of $8 billion in state bonds for the project, ruling that a state oversight committee did not have sufficient grounds to approve the funding. Kenny also confirmed an earlier ruling rejecting a 2011 funding plan from the high-speed rail agency because it did not comply with state environmental laws and other regulations. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/11/25/5945785/sacramento-judge-delivers-setback.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Sacramento Bee notes\u003c/a>, Monday's decisions were not a complete loss for the state's bullet-train efforts: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Kenny denied a request by the plaintiffs’ lawyers to issue an injunction or a temporary restraining order that would block the Authority from spending the $3.4 billion in federal funds it has already obtained.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2013/11/25/3631393/high-speed-rail-suffers-two-setbacks.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno Bee expands\u003c/a> on that point: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Kenny's rulings, however, do not bar the state from selling the bonds. Nor did he order the rail authority to rescind its approval of contracts for work on the first 29-mile construction stretch from northeast Madera to the south edge of Fresno or block the state from spending federal stimulus or transportation money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, the two rulings appear to hamstring the rail authority by severely limiting its available state funds and by delaying its spending efforts. The effect is likely to further stall efforts to start construction on the rail line in the central San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not everything we asked for, but it's a lot,\" said Stuart Flashman, an Oakland attorney representing the Kings County opponents in both cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an October hearing in the Tos case, Flashman likened the authority's situation to a saying attributed to humorist Will Rogers: \"When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Monday's ruling, Flashman said that Kenny \"hasn't ordered the authority to stop digging, but I think he's telling them they're in a hole.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's the text of Judge Kenny's Monday rulings, followed by the Associated Press writeup:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/187128845/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_37064\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Juliet Williams\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County judge on Monday tore up California's funding plans for what would be the nation's first bullet train, issuing separate orders that could force the state to spend months or years redrawing its plans for the $68 billion rail line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Michael Kenny rejected a request from the California High-Speed Rail Authority to sell $8 billion of the $10 billion in bonds approved by voters in 2008, saying there was no evidence it was \"necessary and desirable\" to start selling the bonds when a committee of state officials met last March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the committee, which included state Treasurer Bill Lockyer, was supposed to act as \"the ultimate 'keeper of the checkbook'\" for taxpayers, but instead relied on a request from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.hsr.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California High-Speed Rail Authority\u003c/a> to start selling bonds as sufficient evidence to proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate lawsuit, Kenny ordered the rail authority to redo its $68 billion funding plan before continuing construction, a process that could take months or years, although rail authority officials believe it can be done much more quickly than that. He had previously ruled that the authority abused its discretion by approving a funding plan that did not comply with the requirements of the law. The judge said the state failed to identify \"sources of funds that were more than merely theoretically possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1A,_High-Speed_Rail_Act_(2008)\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 1A\u003c/a>, which voters approved in 2008, required the rail authority to specify the source of the funding for the first operable segment of the high-speed rail line and have all the necessary environmental clearances in place. Kenny had said the agency did not comply with either mandate in approving the start of construction from Madera to Fresno, about 30 miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs, a group of Central Valley residents and farmers, believe the requirement applies to the first 300 miles stretching as far as Bakersfield, and with a projected price tag of $31 billion. But the rail authority contends it applies only to the first \"useable\" segment of track in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Like all transformative projects, we understand that there will be many challenges. ...'\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right !important;font-size: 12pt\">— Dan Richard, head of state high-speed rail agency\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"The court said, look, you've only got 28 miles with completed environmental clearances. I order that you have to have 300 miles of environmental clearances,\" said Michael Brady, an attorney for residents who had sued to halt the project. \"It's taken them 5 years to do 28 miles, so how long will it take them to do 300 miles?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Kenny stopped short of blocking the project altogether, and rail authority officials characterized Monday's rulings as a setback rather than a fatal blow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, rail authority Chairman Dan Richard said: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We are reviewing both decisions to chart our next steps, but it is important to stress that the court again declined the opposition’s request to stop the high-speed rail project from moving forward. Additionally, the judge did not invalidate the bonds as approved by the voters in Proposition 1A. Like all transformative projects, we understand that there will be many challenges that will be addressed as we go forward in building the nation’s first high-speed rail system.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Rail authority Chief Executive Jeff Morales disagreed with claims by the opponents that the judge's rulings would send high-speed rail planners back to the drawing board, saying officials are confident they can address the judge's concerns quickly. When asked how much time it could take, he said, \"Not long. We don't think that addressing that will have any material effect on the project.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rail authority had argued that it has already updated its funding plan and that it intends to spend $3.2 billion in federal money before tapping the state bonds. It also argued that only the state Legislature could intervene to stop the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs had also asked Kenny to block spending of the federal funds and rescind construction contracts, including a $1 billion deal signed this fall, but the judge declined to do so on Monday, saying there was no evidence \"that there has been any impropriety\" in spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also did not invalidate the bonds, merely saying that officials would need to present more evidence about why they need to be sold and when before the committee should approve the sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the state treasurer's office, California has already issued more than $705 million in Proposition 1A bonds, about $400 million for high-speed rail and about $305 million for related rail-improvement projects that could eventually be connected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plans have changed significantly since voters approved the project, along with the costs — from $45 billion in 2008 to more than $100 billion in 2011 and, now, $68 billion for a 520-mile line connecting San Francisco and greater Los Angeles through the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political considerations and opposition by local residents around the state have also forced repeated changes. Jon Coupal, executive director of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, which had sued over the bonds, blamed the ever-changing plans for the judge's decisions Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The project now is so divergent from what the voters were told, that I don't think he had any other choice,\" Coupal said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/02/02/calif-high-speed-rail-authority-elects-new-chairman/high-speed-rail20111118/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55330\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-55330\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/02/high-speed-rail20111118-e1385423679307.jpg\" alt=\"Artist's conception of California bullet train. (California High-Speed Rail Authority)\" width=\"640\" height=\"367\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist's conception of California bullet train. (California High-Speed Rail Authority)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Sacramento County judge has issued a pair of rulings that are likely slow down the California High-Speed Rail Authority's work on the first segment of the bullet train system, slated for the San Joaquin Valley. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superior Court Judge Michael Kenny blocked the use of $8 billion in state bonds for the project, ruling that a state oversight committee did not have sufficient grounds to approve the funding. Kenny also confirmed an earlier ruling rejecting a 2011 funding plan from the high-speed rail agency because it did not comply with state environmental laws and other regulations. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/11/25/5945785/sacramento-judge-delivers-setback.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Sacramento Bee notes\u003c/a>, Monday's decisions were not a complete loss for the state's bullet-train efforts: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Kenny denied a request by the plaintiffs’ lawyers to issue an injunction or a temporary restraining order that would block the Authority from spending the $3.4 billion in federal funds it has already obtained.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2013/11/25/3631393/high-speed-rail-suffers-two-setbacks.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno Bee expands\u003c/a> on that point: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Kenny's rulings, however, do not bar the state from selling the bonds. Nor did he order the rail authority to rescind its approval of contracts for work on the first 29-mile construction stretch from northeast Madera to the south edge of Fresno or block the state from spending federal stimulus or transportation money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, the two rulings appear to hamstring the rail authority by severely limiting its available state funds and by delaying its spending efforts. The effect is likely to further stall efforts to start construction on the rail line in the central San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not everything we asked for, but it's a lot,\" said Stuart Flashman, an Oakland attorney representing the Kings County opponents in both cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an October hearing in the Tos case, Flashman likened the authority's situation to a saying attributed to humorist Will Rogers: \"When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Monday's ruling, Flashman said that Kenny \"hasn't ordered the authority to stop digging, but I think he's telling them they're in a hole.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's the text of Judge Kenny's Monday rulings, followed by the Associated Press writeup:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/187128845/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_37064\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Juliet Williams\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County judge on Monday tore up California's funding plans for what would be the nation's first bullet train, issuing separate orders that could force the state to spend months or years redrawing its plans for the $68 billion rail line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Michael Kenny rejected a request from the California High-Speed Rail Authority to sell $8 billion of the $10 billion in bonds approved by voters in 2008, saying there was no evidence it was \"necessary and desirable\" to start selling the bonds when a committee of state officials met last March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the committee, which included state Treasurer Bill Lockyer, was supposed to act as \"the ultimate 'keeper of the checkbook'\" for taxpayers, but instead relied on a request from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.hsr.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California High-Speed Rail Authority\u003c/a> to start selling bonds as sufficient evidence to proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate lawsuit, Kenny ordered the rail authority to redo its $68 billion funding plan before continuing construction, a process that could take months or years, although rail authority officials believe it can be done much more quickly than that. He had previously ruled that the authority abused its discretion by approving a funding plan that did not comply with the requirements of the law. The judge said the state failed to identify \"sources of funds that were more than merely theoretically possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1A,_High-Speed_Rail_Act_(2008)\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 1A\u003c/a>, which voters approved in 2008, required the rail authority to specify the source of the funding for the first operable segment of the high-speed rail line and have all the necessary environmental clearances in place. Kenny had said the agency did not comply with either mandate in approving the start of construction from Madera to Fresno, about 30 miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs, a group of Central Valley residents and farmers, believe the requirement applies to the first 300 miles stretching as far as Bakersfield, and with a projected price tag of $31 billion. But the rail authority contends it applies only to the first \"useable\" segment of track in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Like all transformative projects, we understand that there will be many challenges. ...'\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right !important;font-size: 12pt\">— Dan Richard, head of state high-speed rail agency\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"The court said, look, you've only got 28 miles with completed environmental clearances. 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Like all transformative projects, we understand that there will be many challenges that will be addressed as we go forward in building the nation’s first high-speed rail system.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Rail authority Chief Executive Jeff Morales disagreed with claims by the opponents that the judge's rulings would send high-speed rail planners back to the drawing board, saying officials are confident they can address the judge's concerns quickly. When asked how much time it could take, he said, \"Not long. We don't think that addressing that will have any material effect on the project.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rail authority had argued that it has already updated its funding plan and that it intends to spend $3.2 billion in federal money before tapping the state bonds. 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"disqusTitle": "California Bills Aim to Protect Immigrant Workers from Retaliation",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>By Sasha Khokha and Rachel Estabrook\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98123\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-98123 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/venegas0528-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Candida Venegas (right) says she was fired from her job at Marquez Brothers cheese plant for speaking up about working conditions. The immigrant rights movement has rallied around her cause, cheering her at a recent rally in San Jose. (Rachel Estabrook/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candida Venegas (right) says she was fired from her job at Marquez Brothers cheese plant after speaking up about working conditions. The immigrant rights movement has rallied around her cause, cheering her at a recent rally in San Jose. (Rachel Estabrook/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Congress debates federal immigration reform in Washington, California lawmakers are pushing several bills to strengthen state protections for immigrant workers. The measures could shut down California companies when employers intimidate their workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the case of Jose Arias, who milked cows at a San Joaquin county dairy for nearly a decade, starting his shift at 5 a.m. and working until noon. He started again at 4 p.m. and milked cows until midnight. But he wasn’t paid overtime, given meals and rest breaks, or paid his wages on time. He finally left the dairy and filed a lawsuit that made its way to the California Supreme Court, which \u003ca href=\"http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/arias-v-super-ct-33002\" target=\"_blank\">validated his right to file a claim.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Arias and the dairy owners were in the middle of negotiations, and shortly before trial, he says he learned the attorney representing the dairy had emailed an immigration agent about Arias’ immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt nervous. I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t even eat because I was thinking about what could happen,” says Arias in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The possibility of getting deported to Mexico, separated from his wife and four children, terrified him. Even talking about his case still makes him nervous. Sitting in his attorney’s office, he speaks haltingly, softly, and shifts uncomfortably in his seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel, well, pretty defeated. But I’m pushing on,” he says. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, Arias filed a separate case claiming he was retaliated against when the dairy’s attorney, Anthony Raimondo, contacted immigration agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to The California Report, Raimondo said “once all the evidence is presented, it will show that the retaliation claim is completely without merit,” though he wouldn’t comment on tape for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Arias says he’s pursuing the case because he knows he has rights, even as an undocumented worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Legislation against worker intimidation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now two bills working their way through the state legislature may encourage immigrant workers like Arias to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml#content_anchor\" target=\"_blank\">AB 263\u003c/a> (Hernandez-D West Covina) would raise penalties on employers who retaliate against workers to $10,000 per worker and make retaliation a misdemeanor punishable by jail time. It also specifies actions that would be considered retaliatory if employers do them within 90 days of a worker making a complaint, attempting to unionize or participating in a public investigation or hearing about working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB666&search_keywords=\">SB 666\u003c/a> (Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg-D Sacramento) would specifically address retaliation by attorneys, subjecting them to discipline or disbarment. Employers who retaliate against immigrant workers could pay a $10,000 fine and have their business licenses revoked or suspended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg and Hernandez say existing federal and state laws that protect workers from retaliation haven’t stopped employers from using the threat of calling immigration authorities to keep employees quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve worked 40 hours, you’ve paid me for 20,” says Hernandez. \"And when employers say, ‘You know what, if you keep bothering me and asking for this money, I’m going to call immigration on you.’ What does that say to the employee? It says to them, ‘You’re going to be separated from your family. You’re going to be punished at that level if you don’t work for free.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Business groups respond\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hernandez bill would require courts to permanently revoke business licenses from employers who retaliate against their workers more than once. That’s the part of the bill that’s getting a chilly reception from business groups like the California Chamber of Commerce and the California Wine Grape Growers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem here is that the remedy proposed is remarkably broad,” says Mike Belote. He’s a lobbyist for the California Employment Law Council, a group of the state’s biggest private employers. He says he doesn’t doubt that retaliation against immigrant workers can happen. But he thinks the Hernandez bill could hurt California’s economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If one of our very, very large employers, who may have tens of thousands of employees in California, and thousands of supervisors, if you have one rogue supervisor who engages in these practices twice, every license possessed by that business must be permanently revoked,” says Belote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez, however, insists it’s a fitting punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a broader effect here: all the other workers that witness the abuse and then witness the employer getting away with it. That creates a very chilling, stifling element in the workplace,” he says. “I’m confident the majority of Californians do not want our economy to be helped through exploitation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Intimidation in Sacramento?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez says members of the legislature actually got to witness worker retaliation at a hearing on the issue in the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee, which he chairs, in March. Among those testifying were workers from Marquez Brothers cheese plant in Hanford. 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Employers who retaliate against immigrant workers could pay a $10,000 fine and have their business licenses revoked or suspended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg and Hernandez say existing federal and state laws that protect workers from retaliation haven’t stopped employers from using the threat of calling immigration authorities to keep employees quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve worked 40 hours, you’ve paid me for 20,” says Hernandez. \"And when employers say, ‘You know what, if you keep bothering me and asking for this money, I’m going to call immigration on you.’ What does that say to the employee? It says to them, ‘You’re going to be separated from your family. You’re going to be punished at that level if you don’t work for free.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Business groups respond\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hernandez bill would require courts to permanently revoke business licenses from employers who retaliate against their workers more than once. 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"content": "\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=xEooBgVLQY0C\" target=\"_blank\">a favorite novel\u003c/a>, an Iowa farmer named Ray Kinsella hears a disembodied voice speaking to him from a cornfield. \"If you build it, he will come,\" the voice says. And thus begins a cross-country fantasy that's equal parts baseball and personal redemption. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's fiction. Anything goes. But it's a little surprising to find that the California High-Speed Rail Authority seems to be adopting the \"if you build it\" approach to choosing the first segment of the state's bullet-train route. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7148\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 231px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2010/11/hsrmap1126101.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2010/11/hsrmap1126101-231x300.png\" alt=\"Proposed rail segment (click for larger map)\" title=\"hsrmap112610\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7148\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proposed rail segment (click for larger map)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Or maybe not so surprising, if you step back. Money talks, and the authority is hearing voices, too—specifically, the commanding tones of the Federal Railroad Administration. Earlier this fall, FRA not only gave California the good news that it was \u003ca href=\"http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=9376\" target=\"_blank\">awarding $715 million\u003c/a> to help get high-speed rail rolling, but also that \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county/ci_16523750\" target=\"_blank\">the money would need to be spent in the San Joaquin Valley\u003c/a>. (Why there? Despite the wealth of published material, from the agency itself and from some decent reporters, we don't see explicit reasoning beyond the following speculation: there's less political opposition to high-speed rail in the Valley than in the Bay Area; it would be cheaper and less complicated to build the initial segment in the Valley than in the heavily populated Los Angeles-San Diego corridor; and, with the Valley's economy in a prolonged deep slump because of the collapse of housing construction, it needs a big economic shot in the arm.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal rail people have left it to California, though, to decide exactly where in the San Joaquin Valley the first segment should be built. The two choices were a piece from Merced to Fresno, about 60 miles, or one from Fresno to Bakersfield, 110 miles or so. Earlier this week, the High-Speed Rail Authority staff announced a choice: a hybrid segment from Borden, a hamlet on the outskirts of Madera, 20 miles north of Fresno, to Corcoran, 45 miles south of Fresno. The authority's board, which faces an end-of-the-year deadline to get its hands on the new federal grant, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=9435\" target=\"_blank\">will consider the recommendation\u003c/a> at its board meeting next Thursday, Dec. 2. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Rep. Dennis Cardoza's reaction to the segment proposal is anything to go by, the rail board is going to hear from some angry people. Cardoza, a Democrat whose 18th Congressional District includes Merced—a town left out of the rail authority's proposal—\u003ca href=\"http://cardoza.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=87§iontree=6,87&itemid=699\" target=\"_blank\">issued a press release\u003c/a> accusing the authority of a \"bait and switch\" and demanding an investigation into its route-selection process. (Cardoza's not the only one who's upset. See the California High Speed Rail Blog: \u003ca href=\"http://www.cahsrblog.com/2010/11/merced-hsr-supporters-angry-at-construction-proposal/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Merced HSR Supporters Angry at Construction Proposal\u003c/a>.\") \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cardoza's rant also raises a point that we wonder about, too: Who's going to ride a line with one end approximately in the middle of nowhere—sorry, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borden,_California\" target=\"_blank\">Borden\u003c/a>; nothing personal—and the other end anchored in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofcorcoran.com/\" target=\"_blank\">a town\u003c/a> known to the outside world mostly as the home of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Facilities_Locator/COR.html\" target=\"_blank\">a state prison\u003c/a>? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer may in fact be \"no one.\" The laws and regulations that control the federal funding for the project require that the cash go into projects with \"operational independence\" or \"independent utility.\" In the words of a High-Speed Rail Authority staff report on the new segment, \"A project is considered to have operational independence 'if, upon being implemented, it will provide tangible and measurable benefits, even if no additional investments in the same service are made.' \" We're not experts, but that sounds like a working railroad to us; we can just imagine the Valley landscape blurring past on that 66-mile, 20-minute trip from greater Madera to Corcoran. (The staff report also notes that the new segment would pass muster under federal law if all it does is enhance Amtrak service. Currently, the section in question is part of Amtrak California's \u003ca href=\"http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?c=AM_Route_C&pagename=am%2FLayout&cid=1241245650084\" target=\"_blank\">San Joaquin\u003c/a> train from Oakland to Bakersfield.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But maybe it'll just be a fancy set of tracks, waiting to get connected to something else. That's the conclusion you come to when you hear what \u003ca href=\"http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/Roelof_van_Ark.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Roelof van Ark\u003c/a>, the authority's CEO, has to say about it. Earlier this month, when the federal government's Central-Valley-first requirement was disclosed, Mike Rosenberg of the San Mateo Times quoted van Ark on the importance of the first segment (emphasis ours): \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\" 'We have to build a system that is going to be operable as soon as possible and that means\u003cbr>\nbuilding many miles of track that are connected to each other,' van Ark said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But a Central Valley segment will have no operational significance -- van Ark said major population centers need to be linked and the agency will not bother starting service there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\" '\u003cstrong>\u003cem>We will not have trains when we build this first segment\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>,\"' he said.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they build this first segment as planned, who will come? Maybe we'll hear some more concrete answers at the rail authority's board meeting next week. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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