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March 7, 2011
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Source: Associated PressWith five more days and nights - at least - to reach an agreement, the NFL and the players' union might find money off the top is not the bottom line.
March 4, 2011
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Source: YourNabe.com“Fortunately, relatively inexpensive changes to the city’s bus system could plug many of the holes in the city’s existing transit network and vastly improve the quality of life of many working poor New Yorkers,” the Center for an Urban Future reported.
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Source: YourNabe.com“The stations shutting down for an extended period of time is a major inconvenience for our commuters,” Vacca said. “My biggest concern when the MTA shuts down train stations for construction and renovations is that they notify train riders in advance so that they may adjust and find alternate ways of getting the 6 train.”
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Source:The comptroller said New York City's economic development agency allowed a construction contract to increase tenfold. The agency called the audit "flawed" and "misleading."
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Source: Staten Island AdvanceAs the fight over school transportation drags on, a seventh-grader puts a human face on what's really at stake
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe U.S. unemployment rate dipped to 8.9% in March, the lowest mark in nearly two years, according to the latest report from the Commerce Department.
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Source: NY PostThe Port Authority's failure to maintain a quarter-mile section of fencing adjacent to Kennedy Airport is but the latest thing to go wrong with a $100 million, state-of-the-art security system, security experts say. A section of the fencing next to a runway along Jamaica Bay went down during recent...
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Source: Elmira Star-GazetteThe New York State Bridge Authority announced Tuesday that new advertisements will be placed on the front windows of toll booths of its Hudson Valley bridges in an effort to generate non-toll revenue for the maintenance and operation of its bridges.
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Source: amNYNYPD street officers are carrying radios that don’t work in the subway, making it impossible to call for help. The city has spent 15 years and millions of dollars trying to resolve the problem, but it’s still unclear when it might be fixed.
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Source: Rachel Maddow / msnbc
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
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Source: CNNThis year, students will learn 2011 is the 100th anniversary of when Wisconsin became the first state to pass a law guaranteeing workers' compensation. They'll probably be taught that the state was a major fighter in the early 19th century for the radical idea of an eight-hour workday. It is the law, after all, in the land of cheese and Super Bowl champs, that school curriculums include Wisconsin's organized labor history.
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Source: NY ObserverGiven the backlash to bike lanes in the East Village, Upper West Side, Staten Island and, most notoriously, on Prospect Park West, it makes sense that the DOT would finally do some outreach on all these projects, even if technically it does not have to—not that the City Council is not currently mulling bills that will create more oversight and community outreach for the department.
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Source: Albany Watch - Journal-NewsNew York State United Teachers union released a statement this evening in favor of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s legislation that would speed up implementation of a 2010 state law that ties teacher and principal evaluations to student achievement. Cuomo submitted his proposal as an alternative to legislation that would scrap the “last in, first out” law [...]
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Source: WABC 7
The Department of Transportation says they are repairing a record number of potholes this year.
March 3, 2011
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No 34th Street Pedestrian Plaza: MyFoxNY.com
New York City has abandoned a plan for a pedestrian plaza in the middle of 34th Street.
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Source: WPIX 11
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Source: WPIX 11
Interesting report tonight from Queens... part of them (in Maspeth) are saying it's a dumping ground because some Greenpoint, BK'ers want a park.... but folks in another part of Queens say don't touch our Willets Point.
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Source: WNYCLong Island Bus may put the brakes on 27 of their 48 lines this summer. MTA chairman Jay Walder said 16,000 people may lose bus service and 200 workers will be laid off because Nassau County is not paying enough toward the service's $134 million annual budget.
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Source: Albany Watch / Journal NewsHoward Glaser, director of state operations, testified this morning at a joint hearing of the state Legislature that the process of moving ahead with 9,800 layoffs will begin April 1, if a labor agreement with unions isn’t reached before then.
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Source: Albany Watch / Journal NewsNew York State United Teachers opposes a bill passed by the Senate yesterday to change the “last in, first out” law for teachers in New York City, union President Richard Iannuzzi said in a statement, calling it “an attack on collective bargaining."
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