good morning seven twenty two when they came in region forty three degrees overcast skies winds out of the west southwest at fourteen miles an hour you know i realize that i'm kind of talking like i'm announcing a basketball game and i can't get out of that out of the west northwest at fourteen miles an hour come traveling across the time line but then a little work its way out wind chill right now is at thirty six degrees sunrise because of the time changes at seven ten this morning your sunset is late as seven fifty one we're coming up right what's the first day of spring bill baker was like two weeks ago well yeah meteorological spring no what's the first day of spring on could write a book about one day that would be like similar to what's his name's book jean shepherd's book about flick his buddy flick will should be and i were in geography class with mrs jones and she you know how didn't remind him well i don't know springs like tomorrow everybody knows spring happens on the twenty first of the month right so it's march twenty first no it's not it's march twenty eighth that's the thing everybody radio and everybody thinks it's march twenty first it's not it's march twentieth september twenty first this is fall jan june twenty first is spring december twenty first as when if you don't care that's right i don't care lisa how are you lisa what's going on probably got one of those do you have your window open yeah yeah all right so this is lisa from the hood and i'm not picturing it oh thank you yes we thank you lisa lisa would you do me a favor though yeah any of the more embarrassing stories that i was involved with joe shruti and some of the things we did just keep them to yourself ok just they're just there just between us how's that so you know what i happen to live go to school with brick leader and it gets even worse i happen to live by next door growing up and he's my exact age we were just a couple weeks apart and we were best running buddies my entire you joey shrew was the most colorful character in my whole life that i've ever met he always had a plan as a matter of fact i'll give you an example we go to the twentieth school high school reunion and quite frankly i know thinks to be ever graduated that's another story altogether but he says he comes over to the house hey what's going on do me and i we hang around for a while and then we go over to this dinner and after about an hour and a half he comes in he grabs me by the back of the by the back of the collar collar thank you we're going to go we're going to lift up this car i'm like like what do you mean we're going  to lift up a car yeah i mean pillow we're going to go pick up this guy's com we're going to go throw in the woods it's this little bitty matchbox cars all come out i do it all the time it's fun and i walk outside i'm like first of all not picking up a car he goes all we could easily do it i'm telling he got you out there he got me up there and he got even better he goes just just see watch you won't believe all like these cars so there's four of us off so we pick this car up and i'm like well you're right you can't pick up a car it's not very heavy it's a little i don't know what it was an m g or something and finally i'm like i'm not picking up his car and hiding it in the wood from him not i my wife comes out to me i'm like all right i'm my wife i have to be i got to go and see runs everything  that was his idea of fun let's pick up this guy's car throw it in the woods and move on but anyways you never really stopped and it doesn't stop here either when we talk about rail expansion we have tonight it looks like they're talking about a three hundred person rally in support of the proposed five hundred seventy one million dollar expansion of the south shore commuter rail line and they're having it now we had matt collaterals and here recently kind of mention the whole glo family here this morning glarus a spokesman for the emerging young leaders said that about three hundred people are expected to attend basically rally for the extension of the south shore  from hammond all the way down to dyer and they're going the number one consideration was the ability to access access jobs or entertainment in chicago for young people this is a meeting of the emerging young leaders we saw the opportunity to show support testimonies from emerging leaders about the importance of the rail line from bill hanna executive director of the r d a bill baker this expansion of the south shore got a big boost it looks like the state legislature is going to take the four million dollar excess that was around from a fee that was being basically missed properly whatever that is four million dollars i it was a loophole in lieu of that money going back to the general funds of the municipalities i think is what mayor mcdermott was advocating for the state says let's earmark that money for something specific and it  was the south shore i mean you know this is going to be an ongoing and i got plaudits congressman's office and the other folks who are advocating for this because they're getting significant amount of press and this is how you do it in public policy and i think part of it has to do with making sure all of the things are addressed in making it pragmatic i don't want to use that term but i just don't think personally that you know they're working through all of it this is just trying to garner support for the big push and you have to have a local match for federal projects so the congressman is doing his job to try to bring in federal dollars to the district which is his responsibility and then there has to be support from the local sponsor per se which is you know the district to match those federal funds and it's no different than the match for federal funds that happened with the little kale project for the airport and now you have the south shore so those are three primary federal projects that are going on here and then really the discussion is whether or not those are beneficial to the community and what the community wants and that will be something that's going to shake out as far as for me i mean you know you talked earlier about you know working with leases and part of the other responsibility of my you know full time job is operations and once the buildings up in the developments in is to make sure it does what it's supposed to do and make money and you know one of the things you never hear in these big federal projects or these big public policy projects is what happens after the actual construction and who's going to pay to operate it and how is that going to cost and who's going to be involved in doing that because that never seems to be a part of the initial discussion in public policy programs like it is in the private sector that has not been the discussion at all no and it never is i mean if you think about any of the projects that come out and they never really talk about how you going to pay for it i mean even you know as much as i'm a big fan of the lake shore and having all of the projects along the lake you know how much does it cost to operate all of those new assets and who's paying for it is it those local communities the r d a pays to build this you know fifty million dollars you know asset who's going to take care of it is it the local community i mean hundred oh well i'm talking about you know whatever the number would be is you know whether it's the train or the marquette plan and doing something along the lake shore to build something along the lake who's going to take care of that i mean i would be a little challenge with the perspective of some of the communities let's pick let's big area i mean marquette park needs to be updated but if it's updated through the r d a dollars are the folks in the city of gary going to be responsible for maintaining it up to that standard or is there going to be continued help in the operational component 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