Vancouver, WA is considering its transportation options, and mayor Royce Pollard has drunk the Kool-Aid and come out strongly in favor of a light rail component to link up with Portland's line, which currently terminates at the Portland Expo Center.  This, of course, is precisely what Metro and Tri-Met have had in mind for quite some time.  They were flabbergasted when Vancouver residents overwhelmingly voted down a cross-river light rail "extension".

Emotions are running particularly high when it comes to light rail, a form of transit embraced by some as a way to ease freeway congestion and jump-start community revitalization and reviled by others as an inflexible method to move a few commuters at tremendous cost to all taxpayers.

Justifiably so:  light rail is inflexible.  It's incredibly expensive.  And it moves only about 2% of commuters while siphoning billions of dollars away from road improvements that are sorely needed for efficient movement of goods and services.  Light rail is likely among the top arguments in favor of dismantling the Metropolitan "Service" District, known today as "Metro".

We keep telling you that AlGore and his merry band of alarmist freaks have climatic variance completely wrong.  Of course, the actual truth is never popular.  It's easier to go with the puppets; the folks like Howdy-Doody AlGore, standing woodenly before a podium and solemnly repeating the mantra that you must change your ways or we're all gonna die.  But even some in the mainstream media are finally beginning to catch on.

Man-made climate change may be happening at a far slower rate than has been claimed, according to controversial new research.

Scientists say that cosmic rays from outer space play a far greater role in changing the Earth's climate than global warming experts previously thought.

Hmm.  AlGore and other global warming "experts" may have missed a little something?  What a surprise!  Who'd ever have guessed?