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California Gov. Newsom, President Trump spar over bullet train money
California Gov. Gavin Newsom sparred with President Trump over billions in federal money the state was awarded to build a high-speed rail between Los Angeles and San Francisco. (Getty Images)
Posted Feb 14 2019 01:50PM PST
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California Gov. Gavin Newsom is sparring with President Donald Trump over $3.5 billion in federal money the state was awarded to build a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
California received the money during the Obama administration. It comes with strings attached, such as completing environmental work along the entire line and providing matching state money.
Newsom said Tuesday there "isn't a path" now to build the full line. He says he'll focus instead on finishing a leg through the Central Valley while continuing all the environmental work from LA to San Francisco.
That prompted Trump to tweet that the money was wasted and California needs to pay back the federal government. Newsom responded that it's California's money and "we're not giving it back."
Fake news. We're building high-speed rail, connecting the Central Valley and beyond.
This is CA's money, allocated by Congress for this project. We're not giving it back.
The train is leaving the station — better get on board!
(Also, desperately searching for some wall $$??) https://t.co/9hxEfEX8Vm
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) February 14, 2019
A Chicago priest talked during his homily about the compassion of a border activist accused of harboring illegal immigrants, while another city church advertised a "deportation defense workshop."
Dozens of churches in Houston, Los Angeles an Oakland offered sanctuary as well as support to anyone afraid of being arrested.
In Miami, activists handed out fliers outside churches to help immigrants know their rights in case of an arrest. And at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Oakland, leaders were tying to help undocumented parishioners understand what they can do if ICE agents come knocking.
Navy formally turns over former Concord weapons station land for park
By Sam Richards
More than 2,200 acres of former Concord Naval Weapons Station land in eastern Concord is now in the hands of the East Bay Regional Park District, which plans to make this land the center of a new park.
The park district board voted on July 2 to accept 2,216 acres of land from the U.S. Navy.
The transfer of the park land was celebrated at a Saturday ceremony on the east side of the former Concord Naval Weapons Station land, an event at which the 75th anniversary of the Port Chicago explosion that killed 320 people - most of them African Americans - when highly explosive ammunition detonated at the north end of the naval weapons station.
Salinas high school coach arrested on rape charges
By Chris Treadway
A political consultant who is also a coach at North Salinas High School was arrested last week on rape charges brought by both the Monterey County Sheriff's Office and the Salinas Police Department.
John Anthony Fickas was taken into custody at the Salinas Courthouse, where he was appearing on an unrelated matter, the sheriff's office said on its Facebook account.
Fickas, a Salinas resident, has been a consultant to a number of area political campaigns and has also been a non-faculty coach of girls field hockey and track and field at North Salinas High, the sheriff's office said, sometimes enlisting local students as political campaign volunteers to earn community service hours.
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