Will Swaim is the CEO of the California Policy Center and, with David L. Bahnsen, a co-host of National Review’s Radio Free California podcast.
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Shafting Shafter
California’s high-speed rail is $100 billion over budget and five years late — now cutting corners through small towns.
More than $100 billion over budget and five years late, Governor Newsom’s high-speed rail project has settled on a new strategy: shortcuts -- including one through the middle of Shafter, Calif. In other news: The secret life of NYC’s David Bahnsen, Newsom tells ABC’s Jonathan Karl he’s a border hawk, we remember the 1947 flight of Howard Hughes’s Spruce Goose, and what Ronald Reagan said about tariffs that Ronald Reagan Presidential Library officials can’t remember. Music by Metalachi.
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Show Notes:
- New York’s Golden Handcuffs: Why the City Has a Special Hold on the Rich
- Trump Is Mad at Canada, but Not for Misquoting Reagan
- Newsom says US faces '5-alarm fire' and warns 'we won't have a country'
- The feds want to know more about the people on food stamps. How Newsom responded
- Newsom Gives Trump’s Vanity Ballroom Brutal New Nickname
- What is Gov. Gavin Newsom's role in the California Capitol Annex project?
- Exxon sues California over new laws requiring corporate climate disclosures
- California’s War on Oil Finally Prompts a Response
- CA state retirement fund lost 71% of $468M put in clean energy, won’t say how
- Why an entire Calif. town is standing up against the high-speed rail
- Idaho official investigating Millbrae police chief over property tax break
- Principal resigns after investigator finds Grindr app used to pursue sex with student
David L. Bahnsen is the managing partner of a wealth-management firm and a frequent writer and public commentator on matters of economics, faith and work, and markets.




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