Newsom is right to scale back the bullet train, and it`s good politics too
(LA Times Clippers)

If anyone thought that Gov. Gavin Newsom´s administration would merely be an extension of fellow Democrat Jerry Brown´s, that notion has been completely obliterated. Brown´s - and before him Arnold Schwarzenegger´s - humongous Los Angeles to San Francisco bullet train was always a pipedream. And...