HeyJaredBetween Two Shovels with Derek Minnema
Between Two Shovels is an executive-level transportation podcast on turning policy and funding into reality hosted by the Capital SouthEast Connector JPA in California.
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- Aug 31, 2026
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Between Two Shovels Ep.29: Joe Cruz - SB 1, High-Speed Rail, and the Funding Cliff (opens the original)
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This episode goes deep with Joe Cruz, Vice Chair of the California Transportation Commission and Executive Director of the California State Council of Laborers. From his start on the campaign trail to representing 75,000 workers statewide, Joe shares the real story behind SB1, the political battle over Prop 6, and how high speed rail almost never made it onto the ballot. Joe also opens up about the mentors who shaped his career, the advice he'd give to young professionals trying to break into th
Between Two Shovels Ep.28: Kiana Valentine - California's $200 Billion Transportation Funding Crisis (opens the original)
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Kiana Valentine is Executive Director of Transportation California, a labor and management coalition founded in the 1990s that brings together building trades organizations, heavy civil contractors, equipment providers, and material suppliers around one mission: securing sustainable funding for the state's multimodal transportation system. She has spent more than twenty years in transportation policy, starting in the California State Legislature on environmental policy, then at the California St
Between Two Shovels Ep.27: Clifton Taylor - The Real Economics of Land Development (opens the original)
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Clifton Taylor is President of Taylor Builders, a company he and his wife founded eight and a half years ago. Since then they have delivered over 10,000 housing units across Northern California and built roughly $750 million in infrastructure improvements. He is also past chair of the North State Building Industry Association and co-owner of the Lincoln Potters, a collegiate wood bat baseball team in downtown Lincoln. In this episode of Between Two Shovels, we sit down with Clifton for an honest
Between Two Shovels Ep.26: James Corless - Why Sacramento Must Think Like One Region (opens the original)
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James Corless has spent nine years as Executive Director of SACOG, the regional planning agency for the greater six-county Sacramento area. Before that he was in Washington D.C. fighting to keep federal infrastructure funding alive through the Tea Party era. In this episode of Between Two Shovels, Derek Minnema sits down with James for a wide-ranging conversation about what regional planning actually takes. How MPOs work and why they were created. What it took to build consensus across 28 cities
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