This is why California’s wasting another $3.5B on high speed rail

High-speed rail in California has become synonymous with failure, a waste, a racket, a punch line. So why shovel $3.5 billion more into the project, as the state’s High-Speed Rail Authority did this week? Short answer: to prop up Gavin Newsom’s presidential dream. If the governor wanted to do right by California residents, he’d simply...