Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Wednesday

The Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) released a study Tuesday on the viability of bringing streetcars back to Downtown Los Angeles. The price tag for such a system would be $60 - $73 million. There is no word if this is something the city is committed to, and the study was motivated by the CRA alone.

Local LA blogger Boi from Troy has hit the big time. The gay, Republican USC alum otherwise known as Scott Olin Schmidt will be one of a panel of four bloggers writing about college football for AOL. Schmidt will spend less time with the Boi from Troy blog and has already staffed it with additional "Bois from Troy." Congratulations to Scott! This is great news for the blog-LA-sphere (sue me Mike).

Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Conny McCormack announced Tuesday that her office will staff a booth at the Los Angeles County Fair. Booth activities planned for this year include voter registration, recorder services information, and election volunteer work opportunities. The booth, which is located in the rear of Agricultural Building No. 4, will be operational from September 8th through October 1st, Wednesday through Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The Fair is not open on Mondays and Tuesdays.

Los Angeles City Nerd has two interesting articles. One, a piece on City Hall's operating hours (did you know that theoretically a Council member could meet with a lobbyist at 3 in the morning?), the other a look back at previous municipal birthday celebrations in the city. They were far more spectacular than the snooze-fest this old, dead, Republican mayor bitched about yesterday.

I don't know we missed this, but back in early August goldfish Little Ed died. Little Ed and Little Antonio (and yes they were named after the Mayor and the Councilman) were goldfish some LA Times reporters placed in an aquarium full of LA River water. Little Antonio went first, but Little Ed hung another 30-40 days.

And finally, a local blog that refuses to take comments from it's readers has opened yet another sub-blog, this one carrying carefully edited reader emails. Of course here at the Sister City, you can bypass the middleman - and as long as your post isn't libelous crap, excessive cutting and pasting or horribly off topic and annoying - no editing is involved. Speak your mind, courtesy of the lovable Mayor Sam.