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The article offers travel tips for the Mount Umunhum summit area in California including information on recommended hiking trails, sightseeing locations, and safety regulations.

The extraordinary redemptions being used to call Build America Bonds "are based on a creative but flawed legal argument driven by the current change in interest rates," said Kramer Levin partner Amy Caton. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

California's high-speed train is "facing a lot of the challenges that come with being the very first at anything," said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Republicans have repeatedly criticized the California high-speed rail project as a waste of taxpayer money. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the $202 million grant signals the Biden administration's commitment to "clean, electrified high-speed rail into the heart of some of the largest and fastest growing cities in California." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The state seeks "long-term stable funding" to advance the nation's largest infrastructure project, which remains in slow motion after almost 15 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Incoming House Democratic caucus chair Pete Aguilar was a California mayor and served on the League of California Cities, bringing the kind of local experience that's considered helpful to muni market interests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rich Saskal A sign touts a local government street-improvement project funded by California's SB 1 transportation fuel tax. Four years after California launched a massive 10-year transportation upgrade program that was billed as a game-changer for the state's infrastructure, questions linger about whether the program is living up to its promise. SB 1 is an effort to address California's massive transportation backlog, which state transportation officials recently estimated at nearly $117 billion over the next 10 years. [Extracted from the article]

California is looking to pioneer the floating wind technology that's required in the deep waters where roughly two-thirds of the country's offshore wind potential exists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The electric vehicle charging program allocates the biggest chunk of federal funds to Texas, at $407 million. California is next in line, with $383 million. No other state receives more than $200 million. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The agency overseeing what has been called the country's most expensive infrastructure project hopes to secure $8 billion in federal dollars and $4.2 billion of state borrowing for the first leg of the bullet train. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

California has received the most, at $9.7 billion, followed by New York. Transportation is the top spending category nationally followed by climate, energy and environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the presence of sea otters on the waters of Elkhorn Slough estuary in California. Topics mentioned include the abundance of the species in the estuary and its expansion problem, the adoption of otter pup to increase the animal population, and the benefits of the presence of sea otters on the slough.

California faces a $117 billion highway repair backlog and the highest gas tax in the country. The question is whether the fuel-tax funded SB 1 is doing enough. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers travel tips for the Loch Lomond Recreation Area in the Santa Cruz Mountains, California and includes information on exiting at Mount Hermon Road from Highway 17, the nine trails of the park with free guided tours of up to four hours on the hillsides and park picnic areas.

The article offers travel tips for Moore Creek Preserve in California and includes information on various hiking trails in the area including the Prairie View Trail, the Vernal Ridge Trail, and the Terrace Loop Trail.

The article focuses on the several bond measures including statewide, local government and school bond measures which got approved by the voters in California. It mentions that the voters have approved Proposition 30 which will raise approx 6 billion U.S. dollars annually for the state budget by raising sales taxes and income taxes to maintain funding levels for education. It also informs that the voters were asked to analyze more than 500 bonding measures for each level of education.

The article focuses on the 2014 budget for the county presented by its president Toni Preckwinkle. According to the proposed budget no new taxes have been implemented and the final phase of rollback of sales tax has been initiated. The article also mentions that the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have helped the county in generating profits.

The article reports on the BB plus rating of Fitch Ratings Ltd. on the nine billion dollars tobacco bonds issued by California and Ohio.