Dave Barry’s column welcoming people to the Superbowl in Miami has some interesting comments on Miami’s rail transit system.
Miami’s rail system “does not go to many other places that many Miami residents would like to go, which is why most of them do not use it,” says Barry. “To them, the Metrorail train is a mysterious object that occasionally whizzes past over their heads, unrelated to their lives, kind of like a comet.”
Imagine you are the director of a federal agency that gives grants to state and local governments. Suppose a researcher in your agency’s department finds that the local governments to which you give grants routinely lied on their grant applications in order to get the money.
Do you:
a. Root out and punish the states and cities that lied?
b. Tighten up your grantmaking procedures to make sure that future lies are exposed? or
c. Use your political power to have the researcher transferred to a dead-end job and ordered never to do research on your agency’s programs again?
The San Jose Mercury News reports that the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) has written a detailed 33-page request for bids for — wait for it — cake.
VTA needs the cakes for the three dozen or so retirement parties it holds each year (it should be a lot more). To submit a bid, a bakery must be willing to provide any of eleven flavors (do you want peach or marble?), sixteen fillings (pumpkin or mint cream?), five icings (butter cream or cream cheese?), and six toppings (jimmies or walnuts?). Plus the cakes have to be decorated with flowers, streamers, or other ornaments.
Today, I start work as a senior fellow for the Cato Institute. I will still live in Oregon but will visit Cato’s offices in Washington, DC every few weeks. Cato wants me to work on a variety of urban, transport, and resource issues.
I will continue to post to this blog, of course, and may occasionally update other parts of the Thoreau Institute web site with links to recent articles and research. I will also keep volunteering for the American Dream Coalition, though Kathleen Calongne will take over some of my work there.
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