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May 31, 2011
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Source: Star-LedgerGov. Chris Christie’s fight with the federal government over abandoning a train tunnel under the Hudson has already cost New Jerseyans more than $1 million in legal fees and interest, records show.
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Source: NY PostAn MTA bus bigwig allegedly turned a Bronx maintenance garage into his own corrupt cottage industry that steered $1.8 million in parts contracts to companies controlled by his relatives, The Post has learned.
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Source: NY Daily NewsNew York City's long-term economic strength depends heavily on a vibrant construction sector. But the construction industry has been hit hard by the recession and its fallout. Jobs are down more than 20% since 2008, and new buildings are not rising as they were only a few years ago.
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Source:Nearly 4,000 people are now tracking a mysterious dancing man on Facebook - from streets to buses to the Staten Island Mall.
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Source: North County Public RadioOne of the North Country's largest manufacturers has won a contract worth more than $230 million to build buses for use in New York City.
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Source: NY PostHe tried to catch the train, but the train caught him -- and nearly took him on his last ride ever.
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Source: Mid-Hudson NewsNEW YORK - In a recent letter to Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) Chairman Jay Walder, Assemblyman Marc Molinaro (R,I,C-Red Hook) expressed his opposition to the agency’s plan to expand, train and house K-9 units as well as building a communications tower, shooting range, parking fields and a railroad siding in the Towns of East Fishkill and Beekman. The projects would total an estimated $7 million.
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Source: WNYCDespite increases to subway fare three times in as many years, ridership continues to rise in what history shows could be an indicator of an improving economy, according to MTA data.
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Source: WNYCFor 10 years, MTA board member Nancy Shevell has been going to meetings at the authority's midtown headquarters. But last week, she attended her first meeting as the fiancee of singer Paul McCartney.
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Source: NY Daily NEwsHector Berdecia had a bad feeling in a bad place. It was Nov. 19, 2003, and he was in a Humvee heading to Al Musayib, a town about 15 miles south of Baghdad where anti-American forces earlier that day had attacked an Iraqi police station.
May 27, 2011
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Source:Long Island Rail Road riders who tried to buy a ticket Thursday morning using a credit or debit card were out of luck.
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Source: AFL-CIO Now BlogWednesday, April 27, started out like any other quiet, sultry day in Mississippi. Beverly Harper got up early, watched some television, had breakfast with her son, surveyed the sturdy magnolia trees in her backyard and planned to enjoy a day off from her job as a bus driver in Jackson.
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Source: MTA.infoMTA Bridges and Tunnels is looking to hire Temporary Bridge and Tunnel Officers (BTOs) to work at its seven bridges and two tunnels, including the Marine Parkway and Cross Bay Bridges to the Rockaways. These temporary appointments are for a maximum of one year, and the salary is $12.85 per hour.
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Source: Daily PoliticsScience Applications International Corp. returned $2.4 million in fees after admitting it had no idea how many hours $540,000-a-year project manager Gerard Denault worked on the system. SAIC admitted the lack of oversight and Denault's termination in a "confidential" letter to city Controller John Liu.
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Source: NY TimesRuling that Republicans in the State Senate had violated the open meetings law, a judge struck down a law supported by Gov. Scott Walker.
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Source: Rachel Maddow - msnbc.comWhat Republicans did to the public employees unions in Wisconsin this year was almost disguised, really, compared to what's happening in Maine right now. In Wisconsin, they reduced the value of belonging to a union by taking away collective bargaining rights, while at the same time making employees more aware of paying for union membership by ending the automatic deduction of dues from their checks.
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Source: StreetsblogAdvocates from the Straphangers Campaign, Transportation Alternatives, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and WE ACT for Environmental Justice met with a number of legislators. The broader coalition of lockbox supporters, which includes a number of labor unions and business representatives, has lobbied for the legislation separately. So far, five new legislators — Senators Daniel Squadron, Liz Krueger, Andrew Lanza and Assembly Members Joe Lentol and Nelson Castro — have signed on as sponsors since the lobby day, according to T.A. State Policy Director Lindsey Lusher Shute, and more should join over the next week.
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Source: Transportation NationThe bus schedules and maps themselves, though, are still in PDF format — literally electronic representations of the paper versions — which are frustratingly difficult to use on mobile devices. And there are no bus schedules on the mobile version of the site, which didn’t get the same revamp.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe fight over paying health care premiums for employees of the now-defunct NYCOTB goes on, with the latest development being the (read it below) denial of a request for an injunction to keep the city funding health care for the retired OTB workers.
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Source: AFL-CIO Now BlogThe BlueGreen Alliance and Apollo Alliance today announced a merger to strengthen and unify the movement to build a clean energy, good jobs economy to fuel U.S. job creation. The newly unified organization will call on Washington to focus anew on creating good jobs, securing America’s energy future and preserving the environment for future generations.
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