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When President Trump talks of draining the swamp of Washington D.C., consider this example reported by the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. Two days before the Obama Administration ended, Federal Transit Administration Administrator Carolyn Flowers approved a $647 million federal grant for the CalTrain commuter service on the Peninsula. The federal grant […]

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