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Mayor Pringle Seeks Seat On State High-Speed Rail AuthorityFrom today's Orange County Register:
Anaheim mayor seeks seat on a statewide rail board
Curt Pringle wants to join state agency planning high-speed bullet train connecting San Diego and San Francisco.
By JIM RADCLIFFE and SARAH TULLY
The Orange County RegisterANAHEIM - Mayor Curt Pringle submitted an application to the governor's office Monday for a seat on a statewide rail board – an effort to ensure that Orange County is a major player in a proposal to build a 700-plus-mile, high-speed line from San Diego to San Francisco.
"I actually believe something's going to happen," Pringle said. "It takes a long time to get the initial dollars in."
The state budget allocated $14.3 million recently to begin studying such things as exactly where the bullet-train alignment would go.
After years of little progress, it was a significant break for the California High-Speed Rail Authority, which hasn't had much money to work with. But major hurdles remain, like funding the $33 billion-plus system. There are potentially several openings on the authority's board.
The bullet train is envisioned to run mostly through California's midsection. In Anaheim, the rail line would stop at the planned Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center, a 13.5-acre parcel just south of Katella Avenue near Angel Stadium.
The entire story can be found here on the OCR website.
Mayor Pringle Named One Of The "100 Most Powerful People In Southern California"West Magazine (formerly Los Angeles Times Magazine) has published The West 100, which the editors bill as their list "of the most pwerful people in Southern California."
Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle is the only Orange County elected official to be included in the list:
Curt Pringle
Anaheim mayor; 47, AnaheimPringle has taken some heat for having lost Anaheim's name-change fight with the Angels and for struggling to muster consensus on courting the NFL. Still, Pringle is not only running unopposed, he's also been endorsed by his biggest critic. It's a testament to the skill and war chest of the ambitious GOP leader of Disneyland's hometown. More broadly, Pringle has built such a strong reputation for his aggressive pro-business approach to governance (creative tax waivers, sweeping zone changes, market incentives to redevelop run-down parts of the city) that other local officials have coined a verb for his philosophy: "to Pringle-ize."