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June 1, 2011
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Source: NY Daily NewsNYC is docking the wages of city workers who don't pay up: "We're taking a more aggressive approach," Frankel said. "We have an interest in people paying what they owe to the city."
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Source: Transit WireMemories of last winter are fading rapidly as transit agencies from Ottawa to Washington are addressing the special challenges of keeping service running — and customers cool — in the summer.
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Source: NY TimesMany people in the mid-Atlantic region probably know this small suburban town as a train stop on the way to or from Union Station in Washington. But with Amtrak and Maryland commuter train stops, a Washington Metrorail station, buses and major highways nearby, New Carrollton seems to have everything a far-sighted developer could want. […] And yet this prime piece of real estate has lain fallow, full of unrealized possibilities, for nearly 25 years. Hotels, residences and retail that were envisioned when the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, or Wmata, chose a developer in 1988 — a decade after the Metrorail station opened — never materialized.
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Source: StreetsblogChris Ward may only have a few months left as executive director of the Port Authority. According to a report in the New York Post, Andrew Cuomo intends to replace the Paterson appointee this fall, once the ceremonies marking the tenth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks have passed.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe expanding criminal probe of the $740million payroll project has led federal prosecutors to charge a second ring of CityTime consultants with fraud - and more arrests are expected.
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Source: Journal NewsHoward Milstein, the wealthy New York City businessman, has been tapped by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to head the state’s Thruway Authority board, state officials confirmed. Milstein was quietly nominated by Cuomo in early May to the post being vacated by current chairman, John Buono, whose term expired Jan. 1.
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Source: Fox 5 NYThe Rev. Jesse Jackson says a "toxic wind" is spreading across America, threatening the rights of teachers, firefighters and laborers.
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Source: StreetsblogGaps in state and local budgets, new federal investments in rail improvements, and growing expertise in public-private partnerships have all combined to make the present moment an intriguing time for private-sector investment in passenger rail.
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Source: Fox 5 NY
US Shuts Down SkyExpress Buses After Fatal Crash: MyFoxNY.com
Federal regulators have shut down East Coast bus service SkyExpress after a crash in Virginia that killed four people and sent more than 50 others to hospitals. -
Source:The Borough Park traffic islands that CBS 2 first told you about six months ago, the ones that caused such chaos, are apparently going to be removed.
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Source: CBS New YorkThe North Carolina-based bus company involved in Tuesday's deadly crash has been shutdown indefinitely by the US Department of Transportation as local lawmakers call for better regulation.
May 31, 2011
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Source: StreetsblogAssembly members Joe Lentol and Nelson Castro signed on to sponsor the transit lockbox bill after advocates made the rounds at Albany on Tuesday.
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Source: AFSCME Greenline blogAn often overlooked benefit of Medicare is the access it provides to prescription drugs for millions of recipients, or Medicare Part D. However, due to Medicare Part D’s coverage gap—referred to as the “donut hole”—beneficiaries whose prescription costs exceed $2,800 annually are responsible for the FULL cost of their drugs until costs exceed $4,550, at which point coverage kicks back in. That all changed with the passage of health care reform last year.
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Source: Daily Politics / NY Daily NewsAmong the survey's findings, New Yorkers overwhelmingly support: Raising the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10 by 2012 with a COLA; requiring employers to give workers five sick days a year; "living wage" legislation requiring employers on taxpayer-subsidized projects to pay $10 an hour.
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Source: DNAinfo.comBroadway musicians literally took their act to Broadway to protest canned music in the new musical, "Priscilla Queen of the Desert."
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Source: DNAinfo.comA project manager for the CityTime project was charged with taking more than $5 million in kickbacks, the U.S. Attorney's office said Friday.
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Source: Albany Times UnionIn towns and cities throughout the 350-mile corridor between New Haven and Montreal, officials like Wawruck are anticipating high-speed commuter and interstate rail. They're now making initial plans to refurbish train stations into retail and office space as the first step toward remaking downtowns as pedestrian-friendly residential, commercial and shopping districts.
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Source: NY PostFollowing a series of shocking security breaches, the Port Authority is overhauling its procedures from top to bottom. The agency has hired former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's consulting firm to carry out a $300,000 "immediate study" of "organizational management of security and agency-wide facility security operations."
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Source: WPIX 11Here are the stations [undergoing rehab].
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Source: Fox 5 NY
For Ground Zero Workers, Another 9/11 Anniversary : MyFoxNY.com
The men and women who build New York City's skyscrapers aren't a soft bunch, but even the toughest were unprepared for the job that took over their lives in September of 2001.
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