The LA Weekly is running a good interview with Henry Waxman. Waxman is the congressman who's famous (or infamous, depending on how you want to look at it) in transit circles for getting a law prohibiting federal funding be used on tunnelling under portions of Wilshire known to have methane gas pockets. I recommend reading this interview, but you'll have to get past this right at the beginning:

Ever wonder why a leg of the Red Line ends at Wilshire and Normandie, miles short of the museums and office buildings that would make it worthwhile to thousands?

Well, see, here's the thing... I've never wondered that, since the Red Line goes to Wilshire and Western, which is a bit farther down the street. Sometimes I wonder if people actually fact-check these things.