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April 18, 2011
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Source: NY Daily NewsTea Party darling Sarah Palin fought over jeers, protestors and snow as she encouraged GOP leaders to take a page out of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's playbook and ignore "violent rent-a-mobs".
April 15, 2011
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Source: City Room / NY TimesThe city level was its lowest in two years. Statewide, unemployment was at 8 percent.
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Source: Streetsblog
Streetsblog New York (blog)
Without New MTA Funds, Transit Riders May Face Return of 70s-Era Disrepair
Streetsblog New York (blog)
That's not the only way the transit authority could decide to respond to a lack of funding, however. At the other end of the spectrum from fare-backed borrowing, the MTA could decide that it cannot take on any additional debt. In that scenario, the MTA ...
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Source: Mocker Blog
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Source: NY PostALBANY -- Gov. Cuomo declared the state "functionally bankrupt" yesterday and warned public-employee unions not to expect any pay hikes over the next three years.
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Source: Journal-NewsA new private company may take over two popular county bus services — TOR and Tappan ZEExpress. The county has contracted with Coach USA to run and maintain the buses since the 1980s. But late last year, it sought out other bus companies interested in handling the nearly $15-million-a-year operation, seeking to improve service to riders and reduce costs to taxpayers.
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Source: NY Daily NEwsDisgraced ex-Controller Alan Hevesi is facing up to four years in the slammer when he's sentenced Friday for his role in a massive pension-fund pay-to-play scandal.
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Source: NY Daily NewsThe Department of Education wants to phase out a major computer contractor that's under investigation for improperly outsourcing some work to Turkey and India, an agency source said Thursday.
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Source: MetroThe Long Island Rail Road is losing millions of dollars a year in uncollected fares, MTA heads admitted this week.
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Source: NY1Months after the MTA cut transit service all across the city, NY1 has learned the agency plans to restore some weekday express buses to Brooklyn.
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Source: NY Daily NewsAny day now, the Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) will announce the winner of the Taxi of Tomorrow competition, awarding one company a $1 billion contract for the exclusive right to produce the next generation of New York City cabs.
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Source:Research assistants at Stony Brook University in New York stood tough for 10 years, organizing, mobilizing and calling out management for trying to get rid of their union. Now, RAs have ratified their first contract.
April 14, 2011
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Source: Second Ave. SagasBy allowing motorists to ride for free across a select group of bridge is costing the city nearly $1 billion in annual revenues, the city’s Independent Budget Office said recently.
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Source: MTA press releaseMTA Bus Company announces that beginning Sunday, April 17 the BxM2 express bus route to Riverdale will be revised in order to provide consistent service along the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Currently, the BxM2 from Riverdale travels south on Fifth Avenue from West 106th Street, then turns west on 79th Street using the Transverse through Central Park to Columbus Avenue, then south on Columbus Avenue to Broadway serving stops along the route to drop-off customers.
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Source: Mobilizing the Region / Tri-State Transportation CampaignAmtrak President and CEO Joe Boardman testified before the House Appropriations Committee last week that with ridership growing more than 36% since 2000, the national passenger railroad company is on pace to break its annual ridership record of 28.7 million passengers, which was set last year. Ridership has not only increased on all three of Amtrak’s major business lines, including the Northeast Corridor, it has grown on most Amtrak train routes across the country, with strong gains in the Southeast, Midwest, and California.
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Source: NY ObserverIn a radio interview this morning, City Comptroller John Liu, again, did not take sides in the dispute between Governor Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg over whether or not the city has a surplus.
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Source: Mobilizing the Region / Tri-State Transportation CampaignNewsday reports that one of the three companies bidding to privately operate Nassau County’s bus system has close connections with the lobbying and consulting firm of Nassau GOP heavyweight and former U.S. Senator Alfonse D’Amato.
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Source: NY Daily NewsNorthern Manhattan subway riders, beware: You have a better chance of getting stuck in one of those smelly station elevators than anywhere else in the city. In the last three months of 2010 alone, uptown riders were trapped a shocking 35 times.
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Source: NY PostA stretch of 57th Street between Third and Lexington avenues is starting to look like the Port Authority Bus Terminal -- with double-parked buses choking traffic and spewing noxious fumes, residents complained yesterday.
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Source: NY PostALBANY -- State Assemblyman Peter Abbate Jr. may have turned a blind eye to runaway pension costs, but he hasn't lost sight of the benefit of befriending powerful unions that have helped to put him atop a $600,000 campaign war chest.
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