(Rare) Saturday Morning News Round-Up -- 12.13.08: Please don't use the map below...not a pail...

Does the name Steve Heminger ring a bell? If it does, you are either a transportation geek, or on the Obama transition team. That's because Steve Heminger, who is currently heads up the Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission, is being considered for Secretary of Transportation. Which is good news, Watch Dog would think. But the Secretary of Transportation always faces scrutiny on projects that get the nod in their hometowns...

A new ferry, a new agency. The debut its new boat from the Water Emergency Transportation Authority serving Tiburon was unveiled yesterday. It looks new and shiny and nice.

A woman urinated in the Abercrombie & Fitch in Corte Madera on Tuesday. She was mad that they didn't have a bathroom for her to use and decided to just do it in a pail...and leave behind with new clothes stuffed in it...yuck. For further reference rogue urinater...here is a map showing you the way to the nearest bathroom at The Village.

There is quite a conversation happening on the Pacific Sun Town Square forum. It is a debate about Prop 8 and gay marriage, but it is happening in an only in Marin way...