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High-Speed Rail Gets a Boost, Legislative Sprint Begins

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California's plan to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco by high-speed rail has been called everything from visionary to the "crazy train" because of its $68 billion price tag. But supporters, including Gov. Jerry Brown, caught a big break in court Thursday when a three-judge panel overturned a lower court decision that had thrown the whole project into doubt. We talk about that and about the four-week sprint to the end of this two-year legislative session with with John Myers, senior editor for KQED's California Politics and Government Desk.

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