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Amy Griffith with the City Paper looks at the Metro Budget and finds some politicians clamoring for more money to pay for school bus 'monitors':

Having spent the last two decades in the high desert, when I came to Nashville and began wandering the streets in the middle of the summer, by 2pm or so I was just about delirious from the heat and especially the humidity.

This article in the Wall Street Journal Link... gives a great overview of the growing relationship between transit (meaning rail transit) and high quality, livable housing options. Rail, because developers will develop next to it.

$4.00.

We live in historical times, my friends. From the democratic presidential campaign this year to a war we went to on false pretenses to gas costing $4.00, it is a time, in my humble opinion, that we will look back to as we grow older.

This just across the transom:

Clergy, Workers Pray for Metro Schools

SEIU Hosts Prayer Vigil for Workers Left Out of Metro Schools Budget

NashTransit thinks the Metro Transit Authority could be more pro-active in getting the word out about routes cuts:

The top story on Chattanoogan.com as of this writing is that CARTA plans to raise rates; has asked the city and the county for additional funds; and states that cuts to some services (such as the awesome free electric shuttle) could be made if the requests are not approved.

Rachel Walden is scared that the Metro Transit Authority’s public hearings next week may mean she has to find a new way to work: