By Orange County Register Editorial in The Orange County Register

April 11, 2016

“Where’s the beef?” asked a 1980s Wendy’s commercial, suggesting its burgers offered more hamburger than those of its fast-food rivals. The well-traveled phrase popped up during an April 4 hearing in the Legislature on the finances of the state’s high-speed rail project.

“We want to see a strategy, like, how are we going to get from here to there,” said state Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee. “I’d like to see more beef,” he told executives of the California High-Speed Rail Authority, which is building the project.

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