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			<title><![CDATA[Will the state Senate vote to stop bullet train in its tracks?]]></title>
			
			

			
			
			
			<pubDate>2012-07-06 16:40:11</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Corrigan named AME for arts and entertainment; Laurie Ochoa, A&E editor]]></title>
			
			

			
			
			
			<pubDate>2012-06-20 16:38:33</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Corrigan named AME for arts and entertainment; Laurie Ochoa, A&E editor]]></title>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bullet train's risk of cost overruns reduced, rail chief says]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-28 16:15:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Dan Richard, chairman of the California high-speed rail authority, said Wednesday at a congressional hearing in Madera that the agency had reduced the risk of future cost overruns, but the project's price tag could increase in the future. 

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			<title><![CDATA[Builder of 1st phase of California's bullet train faces scrutiny]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-28 11:27:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The state bullet train agency is pushing full throttle to start construction of the important first phase of the California high-speed rail system in as little as six weeks, prompting scrutiny of the state's selection of a construction company with the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[High-speed rail authority defends bullet train bidding criteria]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-03 07:16:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The California bullet train agency on Thursday defended its bidding criteria for selecting the winner for its first construction contract, saying that the process held down prices and was handled properly. 

The California High-Speed Rail Authority has...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[California high-speed rail bidding rules were changed]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-19 06:59:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[State high-speed rail officials acknowledged Thursday that they changed their rules for selecting a builder for the bullet train's first phase in the Central Valley, a shift that subsequently made it possible for a consortium led by Sylmar-based Tutor...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[High-speed rail's strongest backers now express reservations]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-27 06:42:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The California bullet-train project has collided with farmers, political conservatives and wealthy suburbanites who would like to see the $68-billion system killed. Now it is facing tough criticism from an unlikely quarter: within the ranks of high-...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[California bullet train groundbreaking faces new obstacles]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-30 08:09:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[California's bullet train agency is facing a series of new regulatory and political problems that could jeopardize its July construction kickoff, which already has been delayed more than six months. 

The new challenges are coming from a private...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[California still hasn't bought land for bullet train route]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-01-28 07:28:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Construction of California's high-speed rail network is supposed to start in just six months, but the state hasn't acquired a single acre along the route and faces what officials are calling a challenging schedule to assemble hundreds of parcels needed in...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cities in bullet train's path have mixed reactions]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-11-27 09:24:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A few hundred faithful pass through the doors of Pastor Bob Childress' sanctuary every Sunday, but he worries that sometime in the next decade a 220-mph bullet train may take their place. 

The future route of the train, as currently drawn, takes dead aim...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bullet train segment's completion date pushed back]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-11-16 08:54:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The California High-Speed Rail Authority said Thursday that it was adding 12 months to the construction schedule for 130 miles of track in the Central Valley, easing what some outside experts have contended was an overly aggressive and risky timeline....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bullet-train planners face huge engineering challenge]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-11-13 07:48:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Civil War veteran William Hood arrived at the mosquito-infested swamps near Bakersfield in 1874 to build a rail line that would soar through the Tehachapi Mountains, linking the Bay Area and Southern California for the first time.

Hood, Southern...]]></description>
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