Valarie Larabee, executive director of the Gay, Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Community Center (GLBTCC), sent an e-mail to gay and lesbian community leaders last week inviting them to a meeting Wednesday when Anderson will introduce them to Keith Christensen, a former Salt Lake City Council member.

Anderson believes "Keith would be a good candidate for mayor should he [Anderson] not run again," Larabee's e-mail said.

Anderson, viewed as one of Utah's most liberal Democratic Party crusaders, and the gay and lesbian community, which falls deep in the Democratic Party trenches, would make an intriguing alliance with Christensen, who is a Republican.

Christensen, however, generally supported Anderson's initiatives when he was on the council and when he stepped down he endorsed Dale Lambert, the former chairman of the state Democratic Party, to be his successor.

Slow on the uptake: It seems that where the University of Utah is concerned, TRAX is about two months behind in figuring out when classes are in session and when they are not.

For nearly two months into the fall semester, the TRAX train from the Delta Center arriving at the university at 7:20 a.m. had just two cars.

So at the Gallivan Center stop, where students transfer from the Sandy line to the university line, many commuters missed the train because it was too crowded.

U. employee Bob Hoskins also wondered why the 9:15 a.m. train had four cars, when it was virtually empty. After several calls to UTA, he learned that train took a direct route from Sandy to the university without the transfer at Gallivan.

But it wasn't on the schedule because officials didn't want people to know about it in case they decided to cancel it.

Hoskins says the 7:20 train now has three cars and each car is a larger model. So things are better.

Too little, too late: The university commuters also have complaints about the lack of security at TRAX stations.

One university employee said when she was on a train recently, she noticed someone breaking into a car in the TRAX parking lot at the Midvale station.

When she couldn't locate any security officers, she dialed 911 on her cell phone and was transferred to the Midvale police. The dispatcher then told her that if it was not her own car being broken into, they couldn't do anything about it.

At the end of the day, on her commute home, she noticed a Midvale police officer at the car that she had seen broken into several hours earlier. The officer was with the owner of the car who had called when he arrived at the station. The officer told her two other cars had been broken into as well.

A born-again site: Sixty-five years ago today, the Greyhound Bus Depot in historic downtown Ogden held its opening dedication. "All hell's broke loose in Europe," declares a hand-written placard from the day, framed and proudly posted in the building, "but 10,000 people went to the dedication of the Greyhound Bus Depot."

On the anniversary of that event, entrepreneur Alan E. Hall is re-dedicating the building, as the E STATION, Utah's first private business incubator.

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