The Dallas metro region now has 72 miles of light rail, 55 stations, and an average of about 60,000 riders per weekday. 36.4 percent more people rode Dallas Area Rapid Transit's light rail in the third quarter of 2011 over the year before.
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The Alliance for Biking and Walking says the top cities for these activies are, in order, Boston, Wahsington DC, San Francisco, Seattle and New York
Word
There’s nothing else in American politics quite like a State of the Union address. Thank God for it, too. Unquestionably the most tedious event on the political calendar, the SOTU is the pimply cousin’s graduation ceremony of American politics. You don’t want to be there, and your aunt and uncle and cousin don’t even want you there, yet ritualistically, you go, they force a smile, and you all suffer your way through it - Michael Tomasky, Daily Beast
Bookshelf
How communities can take on government and corporations
Department of Oops
Gallup reports that the percentage of adult Americans without health insurance was higher than in any year the firms started tracking it in 2008. The percentage rose from 14.8% to 17.1%
Insanatorum of the day
Rick Santorum told CNN’s Piers Morgan that he would never change his opposition to same-sex marriage because it does not reflect “God’s will for us.” The former Pennsylvania senator also reiterated his support from outlawing and restricting marriage in New York and the five other states that allow gay and lesbian people to marry
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Pocket paradigms
When Newt Gingrich speaks, he doesn't look at a teleprompter, he looks in a mirror. That's why he talks so much about "radical" and "despicable." - Sam Smith
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In 1963, Jim Henson introduces business owners to "data communications," with a highly opinionated proto-computer.
Great thoughts of Mitt Romney
[Romney's] stump speech in Ormond Beach, Fla., on Sunday was interrupted by chants of "We are the people." ... According to the report of the Los Angeles Times' Maeve Reston, he shouted back: “No, actually, these are the people. These are the people; you’re the interrupters. We believe in the Constitution. We believe in the right to speech. And you believe in interrupting. Take a hike.” This is not the first time Romney has been rattled by someone who would not let him finish a sentence. Interrupting Romney is the quickest way to make him mad. - National Journal
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