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A Moth, a Tractor and the Bigger Picture
A long time ago as a college student, I took a course on bureaucracy. That one word constituted the entire name of the course, which felt a little like Dante’s warning: “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” Friends who had taken other political science courses with me now waved off; not one of them dared dedicate an entire semester to something so mind-numbing as…
Can California Still Build Big Stuff?
This may be unfair to former Gov. Jerry Brown, but I want to reflect on a comment he made years ago that haunts me as we consider the increasingly tenuous fate of the Sites Reservoir project. Shortly after returning to Sacramento in 2011 for his third term as Governor, the WG Executive Committee met with Brown over dinner. He was intensely focused on advancing two big infrastructure projects.…