DAN GAINOR: Don’t dare say, ‘This is Sparta,’ and six other foolish stories from April This month’s liberal outrage is the PETA people suing for the First Amendment rights of monkeys.

On Wednesday morning, BART officials touted a 50% year-over-year reduction in crime, which they called “the largest drops in crime in the more than 50-year history of the agency,” on social media.

BART also said it's serving 2.6 million more riders than the year before. That number is still only a fraction of what BART used to serve pre-pandemic.

State money would buy time for every California transportation agency — and every agency needs to rethink its raison d’être. And that goes, perhaps most of all, for BART. Because when you talk to ...