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Betsy Lumbye: Collaboration on high-speed rail report benefits readers

Reporter Tim Sheehan's stories today about lessons learned from high-speed rail in Spain come at a critical juncture, when the debate about bullet trains in California is about to reach the Legislature.

Link: High-speed rail story archive

Now it's your turn to ask us the questions

We in the newspaper business make our living communicating, but when it comes to explaining ourselves, we have long fallen short.

Do we print it if President Bush says it?

My 81-year-old parents were visiting from Virginia and my father and I were reading the paper at the breakfast table. My mother, who has macular degeneration and has trouble reading, asked what was in the news.