(Source: The Fresno Bee, May 28, 2013)
MADERA, Calif. — Rep. Jeff Denham came to the Madera Community College Center on Tuesday with plenty of questions about plans to start building a high-speed train system in the San Joaquin Valley. At the committee hearing, Al Smith, president and CEO of the Fresno Chamber of Commerce, spoke in favor of the rail plan’s potential to improve the state’s transportation system and to create jobs in the San Joaquin Valley, where construction could begin this summer.
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