Many  children who joined parents, educators and community members on the steps of the state building Wednesday to send their pleas to state legislatures for early child care centers to stay open despite Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s budget revision in May. The governor proposed cutting $1.2 billion - all state funding - for child care assistance affecting an estimated 142,000 children.

Yesterday, I attended the long and crowded MTC meeting addressing the funding of the Oakland Airport Connector (at one point I was literally edged out of the main auditorium onto the outside patio). I reported on it.  I wanted to make a few personal comments here.