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Today is election day and if you are old enough and registered you need to vote. No crap, no guff, you gotta vote. Seriously, it takes 1 min!! (well, if there isn't a line). V.O.T.E.
 
Get in line at City Hall: 7:45. Vote: 8:55
 
I got in line at Ausonia Old Folks' Home around 8:15 and was out around 10:00. A co-worker was at City Hall and she said the wait was about the same.
 
I voted for Lance/Lacey... their foxtrot was far superior to Maurice and Cheryl's pasa doble. You can skip the lines by texting your vote to ABC or voting online @ abc.com/dancingwiththestars ;-)
 
I got in line at the Oak Square YMCA at 7:55 this morning and was out 10 minutes later. Not a single problem or hold up...
 
Clicking through change.gov, I found this. Evidently Obama's going to start an Office of Urban Affairs. I wonder who'll head it? If the pundits claiming he'll take a lot of Harvard people with him are correct, I wouldn't be surprised if it was Glaeser. All the points on the web site more or less read like they were taken directly from Glaeser's last few months worth of Globe op-eds.
 
^This may be worthy of its own thread?

I read a bit of this a few months back and liked what I saw. The Community Development Block Grant, if funding is increased as advertised, could be a great help for Massachusetts' "Gateway" cities as well as Metro-Boston cities and neighborhoods in need.

I support many of the initiatives listed, but I'm not getting my hopes up yet.
 
Would I be wrong in thinking that Obama will become the US' first urban president? Almost all the rest were primarily based in / associated themselves with locales and cultures outside major urban areas. Meanwhile, Obama's formative years were spent deep in inner city Chicago getting a handle on specifically urban problems.

I'm looking forward to a Biden push on expanding and improving mass transit, too, although this plan only seems to emphasize "maintaining" it.
 
czsz said:
I'm looking forward to a Biden push on expanding and improving mass transit, too, although this plan only seems to emphasize "maintaining" it.
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They keep saying that any stimulus package should include spending on infrastructure improvements. Of course, that could mean a lot of things, but I'd be willing to bet that it includes mass-transit expansion. Especially after the California vote for the Bullet Train, it seems like there might be enough public support to make supporting rail expansion politically viable.
 
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