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March 12, 2012
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Source: NY PostA former MTA coach cleaner was subjected to frightening homophobic bigotry by his co-workers in Grand Central Terminal — including some who’d sing a song about killing gays, an explosive discrimination lawsuit says.
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Source: NY TimesAs the A.F.L.-C.I.O. prepares to endorse President Obama on Tuesday, labor leaders say they will mount their biggest campaign effort, with far more union members than ever before — at least 400,000, they say — knocking on voters’ doors to counter the well-endowed “super PACs” backing Republicans.
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Source: The Republic (Arizona)Authorities Sunday urged tens of thousands of bus riders in Phoenix to seek another way to work this morning as a strike by drivers brought bus service to a crawl over the weekend.
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Source: The Journal NewsTo many, the additional 15 days that the state granted to comment on the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement plans was good news — up to a point.
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Source: amNYGene Russianoff, 58, the staff lawyer and public face of the New York Public Interest Research Group's Straphangers Campaign, lives with his wife, Pauline Toole, and their daughters, Jennie, 15 and Natalie, 13 in a Park Slope townhouse that they bought "seconds before it became impossible."
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Source: PolitickerLegislators are returning to work at the Capitol in Albany after four days out of session and, on their way back, they’ll be greeted by a “giant inflatable Wall Street pig” named “1%.” AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, announced their intention to stage the porcine protest against Governor Andrew Cuomo’s pension reform proposal in a statement sent out yesterday.
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Source: NBC New York
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Metropolitan Transit Authority police are looking to find a man witnesses say assaulted and abducted a woman at the LIRR station in Ronkonkoma on the morning of Sunday, March 4.
March 9, 2012
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Source: NY PostJohn Samuelsen, president of the Transport Workers Union Local 100, will meet with top agency honchos like NYC Transit President Thomas Prendergast to try to hammer out a deal for his 34,000 members. The two sides have been at an impasse over the union’s desire for raises, which the MTA insists it can’t afford.
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Source: Capital New YorkDavid Birdsell, dean of the Baruch College School of Public Affairs, doesn't foresee any of the candidates making explicit promises about improving the financial state of the M.T.A., in large part the problem is so intractable.
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Source: NBC New YorkThe victim was assaulted while entering the 135th Street subway station at the turnstiles
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Source: Transportation NationIt ain’t easy being green. But in a few months New Yorkers could be hailing an emerald, lime or chartreuse cab.
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Source: NY TimesThe votes on the measures – which were attached to a large transportation bill and required 60 votes for passage – came after President Obama personally lobbied several Democrats to vote against one of the measures, White House officials said.
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Source: Metropolis / WSJThe first quarter of the Fastrack program will wrap up next week after the four-night shutdown of the A, C and E lines on Eighth Avenue. In the next wave, continuing through 2012, the program will cycle through sections of the Lexington, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Avenue lines in Manhattan and halt train traffic on sections of the N, R lines along Broadway.
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Source: PoliticoJust in the past two weeks, nearly 100 Republicans said they’d vote against two different versions of Boehner’s signature highway bill — one that covers five years and another that was merely 18 months. On Thursday, Boehner was forced to admit that the “current plan” is to bring up the Senate bill or “something like it.” Meaning he will be hard up to find enough members to support his vision for more road building coupled with expanded oil drilling. And that loss is just this week alone.
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Source: The Record (NJ)The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey hopes to soon do something it hasn’t done in more than 80 years.
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Source: Albany Times UnionAt least one of two legislative houses isn't planning to include a Tier VI pension reform proposal in its budget plan, suggesting that any changes will come after the usual last-minute Capitol brinkmanship.
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Source: Capitol ConfidentialGov. Andrew Cuomo met Tuesday evening with leaders of the AFL-CIO, who raised their very public concerns about the governor’s proposal to change the new pension system, but said he would not negotiate with them over his proposed changes. Several key legislators, including Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, have said they won’t support changes that don’t have the thumbs-up from organized labor.
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Source: CBS New YorkLong Island Rail Road service has been restored at the Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn.
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Source: Journal NewsA strike by Westchester’s Bee-Line bus drivers and mechanics has been averted, with the union and the Liberty Lines bus company coming to a 4-year contract agreement on raises and increased pension and health care costs, the county and employees’ union announced Thursday.
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Source: Talk of the SoundCounty Executive Robert P. Astorino today congratulated the management and union workers of Liberty Lines, the private bus company that operates most of the Bee-Line buses that serve 100,000 Westchester residents a day, on reaching a tentative contract settlement.
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