California’s ambitious fiber-Internet plan approved unanimously by legislature (arstechnica.com)

This is California. I guarantee with 100% certainty that this is going to fail. They will be late. They will be over-budget. Tax payers fund government officials earning in excess of $250k to go to meetings after meetings of regulatory compliance. In the end, they'll decide to dump more of tax payer money into it after delays of Phase I followed by threats based on sunken cost fallacy, and before you know, the technology has moved on and it is year 2035.

"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.