By Aaron Kinney in the San Jose Mercury News

January 10, 2016

SACRAMENTO — More than a year after a judge ordered Silicon Valley billionaire Vinod Khosla to open Martins Beach to the public, the beach remains closed, and the setting of the long-running melodrama has shifted to the state capital, where an obscure but powerful state agency will soon decide whether to force the mogul to sell a right of way for the public to roam his coastal paradise.

But as the State Lands Commission, a bureau that oversees California’s coastal boundary disputes, studies using eminent domain for the first time in its 78-year history, a thorny question looms: Where’s the money?

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