I don't understand. We voted for the Monorail 4 times and then after purchasing property, spending millions, (100 million?) we voted it down, shuttered the project. This is even worse. Let's revote, kill the bitch, like we should have in the first place, and move the fuck on. This plug should be pulled on this now.

@16 - Look in your wallet and find the punchcard. When you buy twenty 6-Million-Dollar men, you get the twenty-first free.

@27, I encourage you to google or wikipedia the term wppss for the answer to your question.

$125,000,000...

...could employee approximately 4,000 people full-time or approximately 8,000 people part-time at $15 per hour for one year.

How many lives would that change?

What projects could we accomplish in one year with thousands of workers that would improve the value and quality of life in our city and give the city essential improvements that would create the economic building blocks to create new work and markets for these thousands of workers and more?

What existing projects that are already funded could be accelerated to completion with a few hundred or thousand helping minds and hands?

What do you think of building an amazing broadband network that would give all of the local individuals, innovators, makers/artists, small businesses, schools, and nonprofits access to the network resources that only large corporations can afford?

What about creating a city investment fund for microloans and matching investments for new startups and worker-owned cooperatives that commit to staying local longterm, creating work with living wages and benefits, and funding a new self-governing, sustainable, community investment credit union and startup incubator that continues this mission?

We could fund $5,000 scholarships for 25,000 local residents to complete 1 or 2 year professional degree programs at local, state colleges after being matched to a local employer's needs.

We could fund an apprenticeship program with local, small businesses and nonprofits.

We could provide matching funds to local nonprofits who commit to remodel & renovate local motels into suite hotels to provide essential, emergency housing for homeless kids and families.

At existing city and nonprofit housing facilities for homeless kids and families we could provide matching funds for onsite after-school tutors, an onsite, daytime nurse (RN or LMP), an onsite mental health professional and/or an onsite human services person to help residents identify and connect with other available support and services.

We could fund a citywide after-school tutoring program.

We could provide seed money for the development of more community healthcare clinics.

We could
dare to dream
and to build a little bit better city
for all of us.

@33

Keep boring your own hole with that empty head of yours.

We eagerly await the return of your muffled silence.

The city could underground the utility lines along perhaps 500-600 blocks, allowing for larger street trees to provide more shade in increasingly hotter summers, and lowering line repair costs from tree limbs in storms.