{"id":689639,"date":"2026-10-20T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=689639"},"modified":"2026-10-20T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:48:00","slug":"in-la-more-evidence-that-single-party-rule-california-is-a-madhouse-where-nothing-ever-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=689639","title":{"rendered":"In LA, More Evidence That Single-Party Rule California Is A Madhouse Where Nothing Ever Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_2200-1200x675.jpeg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"A doorway with a &quot;SkyLink&quot; sign next to it is blocked by construction fencing.\" \/>The 2.25-mile SkyLink project broke ground in 2019, with a promised opening date of 2023, at a budgeted construction cost of $1.9 billion. Today, the project might start serving passengers in 2027, and construction costs are expected to top $3 billion.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_2200-1200x675.jpeg\" title=\"In LA, More Evidence That Single-Party Rule California Is A Madhouse Where Nothing Ever Works\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2.25-mile SkyLink project broke ground in 2019, with a promised opening date of 2023, at a budgeted construction cost of $1.9 billion. Today, the project might start serving passengers in 2027, and construction costs are expected to top $3 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}