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July 20, 2011
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Source: CBS New YorkAccording to New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, the Port Authority doesn't have documentation to support $1.18 billion of its $1.3 billion worth of contracts and agreements.
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On Tuesday, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino took State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Sen. Charles Fuschillo, the chairman of the transportation committee, on a tour of the aging Tappan Zee Bridge.
July 19, 2011
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Source: AFL-CIO Now blogAmid a cacophony of complaints by management lawyers, Scott Pedigo’s voice broke through the rhetoric and laid out for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) what it’s really like to try and form a union in today’s economic environment.
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Source: Politics on the Hudson / Journal-NewsWith the state’s top two public employee unions coming to tentative deals with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration, rank-and-file members will get their say over the next several weeks.
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Source: ABC 7New York City is hoping to ease midtown Manhattan traffic congestion with new technology.
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Source: Transportation NationThe New York baseball rivalry spreads to a transit search site! In honor of the Yankees-Mets subway series earlier this month, the folks at HopStop crunched some numbers on how fans travel to New York stadia, and it’s a Yankee town, sort of. The trip planning website HopStop.com breaks down how often people used their site for directions to Yankee Stadium and to Citi Field. They also map out from which neighborhoods people traveled to games with mostly expected results.
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Source: NY TimesNew Yorkers have heard this before: officials said the system would not only locate tie-ups, but also alter traffic signals to ease them.
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Source: NY1NY1 Online: Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan Discusses New Traffic Plan, Bike Lanes | Errol Louis interviews lawmakers from New York City and beyond on NY1's Inside City Hall program, every weeknight at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.
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Source: City Room / NY TimesThe Day: Surveillance cameras can be effective in helping to hunt down crime suspects, but whether they deter crime remains open to debate. Also, what City Room is reading in other papers and blogs.
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Source: NY PostNote to Nicole Gelinas and The Post for publishing her article, "MTA's Too-Nice Pay" (PostOpinion, July 13). When the MTA lays off transit workers, there isn't less work -- just fewer workers doing more to keep the system going.
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Source: ABC 7Unions representing musicians and artists at troubled NYC Opera have asked the state AG to investigate fraud.
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Source: NY1MTA officials have been planning to install barriers in city buses for some time, but drivers say that recent attacks highlight the need for progress to be made by the end of this year.
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Source: Mobilizing the RegionAfter substantial press coverage last fall and winter, the idea of a No. 7 subway extension to New Jersey has faded from public view. But MTR has learned from numerous sources that New York City is proceeding with a study of the proposal that could include a plan for a bus transfer station at Secaucus Junction in New Jersey.
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Source: Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — It's the morning rush in the Times Square subway station, a routine convergence of humanity and mass transit that makes New York City hum. Mixing seamlessly with subway riders are New York Police Department officers with heavy body armor and high-powered rifles, commanders in blue NYPD polo shirts carrying smart phone-size radiation detectors and a panting police dog named Sabu.
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Source:Leaders of Connecticut’s state employees’ unions voted on Monday to lower the approval threshold on a plan already rejected once by the rank and file.
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Source: CBS New YorkThe NFL wants team executives ready to be schooled in the ins and outs of a new labor contract as early as Thursday. Players are gathering so they're ready to vote on an agreement in principle. Yes, signs are strong that football's four-month lockout might almost be over.
July 18, 2011
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Source: Fox 5 NYThe price to park at the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island is going to jump to $8 a day on Monday.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe Working Families Party today blasted Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and called on federal authorities to launch further investigations into the embattled media company's "criminal activity."
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Source: NY TimesLeaders of the state’s largest public unions are trying to convince members that unpaid furloughs, benefit cuts and salary freezes are better than widespread layoffs.
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Source: NY PostThe Pentagon has fired a shot across the bow of the giant contractor at the center of the CityTime payroll scandal -- issuing a scathing audit saying $480 million worth of its federal contracts could lead to fraud or waste.
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