Day: February 14, 2012

To celebrate the launch of our community page and columnist for Santa Monica, the Library Alehouse is sponsoring another day long fundraiser for Los Angeles Streetsblog on Tuesday, March 27.  Just like the event they held for us last year, all you have to do is show up and eat (or drink) anytime between 11 and 11 and 10% of the proceeds will go to the Streetsblog coffers to support our new writer in Santa Monica.

With more and more Republicans coming out against provisions of the House transportation bill, the GOP leadership has opted to split their massive bill into three parts to be debated and voted on separately, Politico reports. The thinking, as Larry Ehl writes, is that members will be allowed "to go on record voting 'yes' on sections they strongly support, and 'no' on sections they strongly oppose." One bill would deal with transportation reauthorization (including the Ways & Means Committee's transit "fix"), one with energy production, and one with federal pension reform (yes, all of that was included in the same bill until today).

WHEN I FIRST MET JOHN JONES III, leader of the East Side Riders, he sized up all 5' 2” of me and, instead of shaking my hand, stuck his straight up in the air.

One of my favorite love poems of all times was written by the inestimable lover, Roger Rabbit.  To quote:

There's been a lot of analysis and explanation of how bad the House transportation bill is from a policy standpoint. This proposal takes sound transportation policy, covers it with oil, sets it on fire, and then dances on the ashes.

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