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Daily Report: Money and Politics

Bullet train bidder has history of cost overruns

April 16, 2013, 10:24 AM
SACRAMENTO – The lowest-bidding partnership for the first segment of California’s high-speed rail line includes a firm with a history of cost overruns and costly lawsuits. The California High-Speed Rail Authority on Friday announced that the American joint venture of Tutor Perini/... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Contractors among biggest donors to BART board campaigns

November 1, 2012, 12:05 AM
Construction companies are pumping tens of thousands of dollars into the race for the Bay Area Rapid Transit board in an effort to unseat incumbent Director Lynette Sweet. The construction firms accuse Sweet of meddling in bids for BART construction work and are backing 25-year-old Zakhary... + read more
Daily Report: Higher Ed

Community college districts' bonds inflate taxpayers' repayments

August 22, 2012, 12:05 AM
Several California community college districts have sold bonds that allow them to put off payments for up to 40 years, causing the total repayment to cost taxpayers from five to nine times the principal. Poway Unified School District made headlines this month for issuing a bond for $108... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Alameda to allow construction of new apartments

July 11, 2012, 12:05 AM
For the first time in nearly 40 years, the city of Alameda has zoned large swaths of land for apartment buildings. The City Council's vote paves the way for new affordable housing in the city, which residents have tried to block for decades. The new zoning plan came eight months after... + read more
Daily Report: General Assignment

Despite demand for apartments in Bay Area, new construction slows

June 20, 2012, 12:05 AM
Although rents are soaring and demand for rental units is growing, developers are not building many new apartments, condominiums or homes in the Bay Area, according to a new report. The region added 6,382 housing units between April 2010 and July 2011, an increase of just 0.2 percent, newly... + read more
Daily Report: K–12

Senate hearing today will address seismic safety reforms

April 20, 2012, 12:05 AM
Prompted by a scathing audit and proposed legislation, the state's top construction administrators are scheduled today to discuss ways to improve the seismic safety and oversight of public school building projects. State Architect Chester Widom and Lisa Silverman, executive officer for the... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Rail authority to accept Fresno-area bids within weeks

March 2, 2012, 12:05 AM
SACRAMENTO – Contractors vying to build the first sections of California’s proposed high-speed rail line will get the green light to start making their bids within just a few weeks. Yesterday, the California High-Speed Rail Authority approved the terms and conditions that bidders... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

High-speed rail construction likely delayed until 2013

February 29, 2012, 12:05 AM
Construction of a high-speed train line in the central San Joaquin Valley was supposed to start late this year. Now, officials say, it’s not likely to start until early 2013, even if state legislators approve billions in bond money this spring. At its meeting tomorrow in Sacramento, the... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Contractors OK'd to bid on Fresno-area bullet train construction

February 3, 2012, 12:05 AM
Fourteen construction companies are on the short list of firms poised to bid for contracts to begin building California’s high-speed rail system in the Fresno area later this year. The list was revealed by California High-Speed Rail Authority CEO Roelof van Ark at the authority board... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Critics worry high-speed rail approvals will be fast-tracked

January 10, 2012, 12:05 AM
Since the recession began, the state Legislature has put some big-ticket construction projects on the environmental fast track in the name of creating jobs. At the behest of then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, lawmakers agreed in 2009 to exempt 10 multimillion-dollar highway construction projects... + read more
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