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March 14, 2011
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Source: NY Daily NewsRatted out by mob informants, the boss of a major city concrete workers union was booted Friday in an effort to break decades of Colombo crime family control.
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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has directed the Connecticut Department of Transportation to seek a share of $2.4 billion in federal money originally set aside for Florida's high speed rail project.
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Source: NY Post"New York pols aren't about to eliminate most collective-bargaining rights and automatic dues collection for public-sector unions, as Wisconsin just did. But if they care about the public good, they could take some baby steps to show that they're not entirely in the pockets of union labor."
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Source: Brooklyn PaperThe city’s plan to move MTA buses from Brooklyn to Queens has ignited a border war!
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Source: NY Daily NewsScores of bus riders are allowed to beat the fare with impunity, depriving the transit system of millions of dollars that could pay for more service, subway cleaners and platform countdown clocks.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe Long Island cop killed in a friendly fire incident was officially identified Sunday as Geoffrey Breitkopf, a 12-year veteran dedicated to public service.
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Source: NY PostThe bus company at the center of the deadly Bronx crash has a checkered safety record rife with failed inspections and fatigued drivers, records show. Brooklyn-based World Wide Tours was involved in two previous crashes that injured two passengers, according to the federal Department of Transportation.
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Source: Associated PressFor decades, development in New York was about concrete, skyscrapers and roads - highways that often ringed the city and kept people from the hundreds of miles of waterfront shoreline that help define the city. Now, the city's first waterfront plan in two decades will spend billions of dollars to reunite New Yorkers with their water.
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Source:If you planned on taking the 7 train this weekend, you may want to tweak your plans and find another way to get around.
March 11, 2011
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Source: City Room/NY TimesThe Staten Island borough president, James P. Molinaro, has renewed his call that the Port Authority sell naming rights to the soon-to-be-rebuilt Goethals Bridge to the highest bidder.
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Source: Irish CentralJohn Dunleavy, 72, has been chairman of the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade for 16 years. Like all the other chairmen before him, he worked his way to the top, starting as a volunteer in the formation area where marchers line up to walk up 5th Avenue. He even used his influence as a dispatcher for the Manhattan and Bronx Transit Authority (now NYC Transit) to move crosstown bus stops on March 17 so that the parade would remain unblocked by traffic. From there, Dunleavy served as financial secretary, treasurer, vice chairman, and now chairman, a position he is stepping down from in this, the 250th year of the parade’s illustrious history.
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Source: aiCIOIn an effort to recover allegedly unlawfully obtained proceeds from foreign-exchange transactions, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) has sued Bank of New York Mellon.
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Consider this a "fare warning" about a new way to pay for a bus ride. If you fail to follow the rules you could face a $100 fine. So far, more than 10,000 bus riders have been busted.
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Source: NY Daily NewsAs often happens in New York politics, we are faced again with the prospect of solving New York City's traffic congestion problem, or at least that is what the advocates of congestion pricing would want you to believe.
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Source: WFAN 660AM/APBack on the brink. The NFL and the players' union headed into the final 24 hours of their twice-extended collective bargaining agreement with little apparent progress on key economic issues.
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Source: WCBS 2By now you've most likely noticed the NYC Health “Pouring on the Pounds” subway posters campaigning to get people to cut down on sugary drinks.
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Source: NY TimesAt a Community Board hearing, several hundred residents recited their arguments into a scratchy microphone; there were tense words but no fireworks.
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Source: Great Neck RecordThe dramatic announcement last week that the unresolved conflict between the Metropolitan Transit Authority and Nassau County over the funding of the Long Island Bus system will lead to the elimination of the Great Neck bus routes entirely, along with 23 other routes, and cutbacks in service for routes all over the county was greeted with disbelief and anger. Thousands of riders would be affected.
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Source: Brooklyn PaperWe are stunned by the mayor’s proposal to turn liveries into taxis in the outer boroughs.
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