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Featured Headline: The Los Angeles Times' cantankerous State Capitol columnist George Skelton takes aim at High Speed Rail. Skelton wonders why it seems that everything is up for a cut in Sacramento except the politically unpopular train. In what reads almost like a rebuttal to Skelton's piece, the L.A. Times Editorial Board responds that funding a "bullet train" is a smart investment in the long term.

By Damien Newton

8:44 AM PST on January 9, 2012

Featured Headline: The Los Angeles Times’ cantankerous State Capitol columnist George Skelton takes aim at High Speed Rail. Skelton wonders why it seems that everything is up for a cut in Sacramento except the politically unpopular train. In what reads almost like a rebuttal to Skelton’s piece, the L.A. Times Editorial Board responds that funding a “bullet train” is a smart investment in the long term.

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