At This Rate We May Never Make It (Or: KEEP ON TRUCKIN'!!)

For the second consecutive month, it seems there will be no meeting held for the Ad-Hoc Truck Route Committee to accomplish its herculean task of ridding the city of the no-longer-welcome truck route (if that is their goal - I'm not even sure what it is at this point, actually).  This Wednesday's scheduled meeting has been cancelled and, as far as I can tell, a meeting wasn't even scheduled last month.  This probably shouldn't come as a surprise as it appears that new members have yet to fill the two vacancies created at the end of the year.  According to the city's website, there are presently just three voting members on the Truck Route Committee, all continuing members:  Margaret Morris, Dewan Sarowar and Mohammed Rony.  Who knows, maybe the two vacancies aren't vacancies at all.  How many voting members are required of a committee?  Can we do with just one member? 

Speaking of just one -- according to the city's Boards & Committees webpage, in addition to the Truck Route Committee, 1st ward Common Council member Margaret Morris is also a member of the following three committees: Parking Study, Legal and Finance. In total, there are six committees. The Parking Study Committee, now with six members (one new), has not met since October, though they do have a meeting scheduled for later this month. Additionally, Morris is pushing to resurrect individual department meetings which Council President Tom Depietro abolished a few years ago in favor of one long informal meeting, as well as creating a new committee or two (Public Safety being one of them, I believe).

Mohammed Rony is also a member of four committees.  

On a lighter, musical note:

Speaking of truckin', for those in need of some music to tap yer toes or shake a tail feather to, it's difficult to top Hot Tuna's Keep On Truckin'.  Of course, they ripped that song off of Blind Boy Fuller, whose rendition from the 1930's while on a National Steel resonator guitar is fantastic.  It's titled Truckin My Blues Away.  The guy was rockin' well before there was rock and roll as we know it! (You can easily find these songs and others of Fuller online.)  How influential was Blind Boy Fuller in the rock and roll world he would never come to hear or be part of?  While there is no shortage of famous and not-so-famous artists who have covered his songs, the Rolling Stones (named after a tune by Muddy Waters!) went as far as naming a live record of theirs (Get Yer Ya's Ya's Out) after a song of Fuller's!  Is there any higher praise?  It's simple:  Without African American blues music, there would be no rock and roll played primarily by white musicians, many of them making more money at it than blues music originators such as Blind Boy Fuller could ever have imagined was possible.  Talk about the blues!