California’s ambitious fiber-Internet plan approved unanimously by legislature

"The bill would require the [Office of Broadband and Digital Literacy] to retain a California based nonprofit entity as a third-party administrator to manage the development, acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of the broadband network, and to submit annually a report to the budget committees of the Legislature on the broadband network, as specified"

(text from the bill: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...)

Not true at all. The California State Water Project is one of the most successful public works and general feats of engineering accomplishment ever built. Terminal Island is a wild success. California's state and interstate highway infrastructure is the best of any state I've ever lived in. One high-profile failure doesn't mean everything the state ever does is doomed to also fail. That would be like saying the disaster that is the Salton Sea means large-scale infrastructure created by private companies is doomed to always fail.