The fervor over the light rail's early closing time continues to get bigger.
As we've previously written about here and here, a growing number of Valley urbanites are pissed off over the fact the light rail system stops at midnight instead of running until 2 a.m. and providing the drinking crowd with a way of getting home. (Currently the last trains of the night depart the eastern and western termini at 11 p.m.).
And now they're taking a page from the 60s protest playbook to try and get
Is it just us, or have people in this town lost their balls?
For instance, we reported on Wednesday about local photographer Morgan Bellinger's plan to stage a light rail sit-in later this month as a way to protest the fact that the trains stop running at midnight. But now he's pulled an complete about face on the matter and cancelled the event following a con-fab with Valley Metro officials.
Morgan Bellinger
Hugh HallmanOne day after the Scottsdale City Council voted to oppose the city of Phoenix's $97 million CityNorth subsidy, Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman said he'll ask his Council to consider taking the same action. Challenged by the Goldwater Institute as unconstitutional, the tax giveaway was struck down by the appellate court. The city of Phoenix is asking the Arizona Supreme Court to review the appellate decision and let it give away zillions of our tax dollars -- and, las
