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Good morning, Houston. How better to end the week than with a little soul searching — and when better to do it than on Evaluate Your Life Day? Yeah, we know, it used to take hours (days, even) to find your true self, but the good news is that you can get things taken care of much more quickly these days: using online quizzes, you can figure out whether you're CEO material, which celebrity's...

More in the ongoing saga of MetroRail's stray electrical current: Looks like Metro is going to go after payment from contractor Siemens, despite a refusal letter. Last summer, Metro billed Siemens Transportation Systems $917,400 for monitoring related to the stray current between May 2005 and June 2006. No one's sure where the leaking current is coming from: Metro has tracked down and repaired points it thought were causing trouble, and it replaced metal anchors in...

Metro may be a step closer to building its proposed North and Southeast light rail bus rapid transit guided rapid transit lines thanks to the Bush administration's 2008 budget proposal, the Chronicle reports today. The Federal Transit Administration announced that, under the proposed budget, the two Metro lines are among six projects nationwide that could qualify for 50 percent federal funding; last week and earlier this week, the FTA also issued records of decision in...

Metro President and CEO Frank Wilson delivered his state of Metro address at the Hilton Americas yesterday afternoon. Wilson touched on several projects that loom in Metro's future, including the controversial $1 billion+ light rail expansion. It looks like Mr. Wilson isn't tipping his pitches concerning the University line debate (which is all we were really listening for anyways). In fact, eager rail enthusiasts and detractors received no new information. All Wilson had to say was this:

We'll bet you can't guess what's special about today. No, really, just try to guess. Anything? Oh — why, yes, it U.S. Coast Guard Day, as a matter of fact. But that's not what we're talking about here.

There's news today from the Chronicle on Metro's proposed University light rail line: Metro Chairman David Wolff met with the Chron's editorial board this morning and said he could "live with" an alignment that would take the line from Main Street west along Richmond Avenue, then south at Greenway Plaza to Westpark. It's a Metro compromise between keeping part of the line on Richmond and avoiding Afton Oaks and residential areas between Greenway and the...

So inflation and rising operations costs have finally caught up with Metro, which the Chronicle reports may be considering a bus fare increase before long. But wait — is the problem really inflation and rising costs, or could it have something to do with the fact that Metro's only getting an average 43 cents per passenger boarding, compared with the $1 base fare? That sounds odd, but it's due in part to an extremely complicated...

It's looking like the route of Metro's future University light rail line could end up being more controversial than we thought — but it turns out Metro might be able to put the line wherever it wants to, thanks to a rather nonspecific clause in the 2003 rail referendum.

Residents and business owners along the proposed University light rail line will meet with the Metro board today to give their opinions on the line — and it looks like there's a lot of opposition, at least as it's reported in the Chronicle.

Houstonist loves a good party. But sometimes as we're sprawled on the couch, hangover in full swing, we wonder: What's the point? You can imagine, then, our excitement at learning about a hip downtown party with a purpose. Okay, maybe "hip" isn't the right word, and it might be a stretch to call it a "party," but it's definitely downtown. And there is a purpose. The shindig in question is a lunchtime get-together today to...