..and there off!

-At the 3 link post, we have a three horse race, with the fourth trailing heading into the Florida Handicap next Tuesday. Gosh! If this race continues at this rate we might not have a clear candidate until the convention, like it was in yesterdays.

-I can remember as a child laying on the floor in front of our free standing Philco radio listing to the Democratic Conventions battles. In my father's house it was worse than a mortal sin to be listing to anything but Democratic programs. No one spoke, that I can't remember, much about the other guys, except Hoover, the evil of the evil ones. I think my dad's father-in-law was one of the other guys, because we seldon visited his farm, or if we did, dad couldn't make it...had work to do at home or across the street at the Family Homestead. I didn't have a clue who Hoover was at all. I understood clearly there was this god-like guy named Roosevelt. Remember I wasn't "reborn" (political speak) until 1980 at the age of 44.

-Actung Cincinnati! Buried in the back pages of the Enguirer's editoral page was an article about the Portland OR. famous streetcar program. Seems this "self sustaining project", what Cincinnati is trying to emulate, got a $20M funding from the pp's stimulus for maintenance of the system. One local reader responded "do we plan to prevent our proposed street car system from becoming a "crack train" from the riverfront to OTR area? My concern are, the street car(s) will be high-jacked in the OTR area and sent to chop shops, never to return. My other concern is, I am certain this project will be added to the New Freedom Center, the two New Sport Stadiums coming after the taxpayer for additional taxes. The city is alreay millons in the red, let's attend to to the debt and deficits before considering another rat hole for money.