Fail Rail! High-Speed Train Connecting Vegas to L.A. Comes Up 100 Miles Short

Obama may have declared our country the Land of High-Speed Rail last April, but here in California, we promised back in November 2008 to raise more than $40 billion to fund a massive high-speed network running from San Diego to the Bay Area. But that didn't include an all-important spur for one of the most heavily traveled routes in the state: One third of Las Vegas' 38 million annual visitors are Southern
Californians who drive the four-hour route up I-15 in heavy traffic clogged by...