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April 11, 2011
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Source: NY PostThis station agent should be working on the Zzzzzz line.
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Source: NewsdayWhile unions have been target No. 1 in state-budget fights across the country, they fared better here in Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo 's first budget, union officials and experts said. While losing major battles on school aid and a tax on the wealthy, unions were not forced to fight for their basic right to bargain -- and they even managed some victories.
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Source: NY PostA downed wire is slowing Amtrak and commuter trains along the Northeast Corridor between Trenton and New York City.
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Source: WABC 7On Monday, lawmakers from New York will gather to protest the spending cuts approved in Friday night's 11th hour budget deal.
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Source: NY PostA boozed-up elderly man had his leg severed by a Brooklyn subway train after tumbling on the tracks this evening, police said. The 66-year-old man, who was not immediately identified, was "highly intoxicated" when he fell onto the northbound D-line tracks at the Bay 50th Street station at Stillwell Avenue.
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UFT Calls on New Chancellor to Fix Struggling Schools : MyFoxNY.com
United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew called on new Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott to start his tenure by fixing the city’s failed strategy for dealing with public schools. -
Source:On April 9, New York union members drawn from every every sector of the economy flooded Times Square to declare We Are One. In the face of job cuts and
April 8, 2011
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Source: amNYA Manhattan man who shot two police officers questioning him for illegally using a student MetroCard in a Long Island City subway station was sentenced to 55 years in prison on Thursday.
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Source: NY PostTwo contractors have been charged in the death of a hardhat killed at a Staten Island construction site more than two years ago, authorities announced today. Michael Fazio, 50, of Short Hills, NJ, was hit with criminally negligent homicide and Anthony Malfi, 43, of Todt Hill, was charged with reckless...
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Source: AFL-CIO NOW BlogRecall supporters now have sufficient signatures to file a recall against Republican Randy Hopper, who represents the Fond du Lac region. This second filing comes just days after more than 15,588 signatures were filed to recall state Sen. Dan Kapanke, who represents the La Crosse area.
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Source: The HillPresident Obama broke with union supporters Wednesday over a controversial trade agreement with Colombia that is vociferously opposed by organized labor.
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Source: Second Ave. SagasI found myself standing where few civilians have been. I am approximately 55 feet underneath Second Ave. between 91st and 92nd Streets, and I am standing inside a wet, dark, round tunnel. An industrial-sized air vent hangs above me while a set of rudimentary train tracks stretch southward as far as the eye can see. In five and a half years, the Q train, bound for Brooklyn via Second Ave. and Broadway, will rumble past that spot, but right now, it is the largest construction site in New York City.
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Source: StreetsblogWith each passing month, the MTA comes closer to the day of reckoning on its unfunded capital plan — the maintenance work that keeps trains and buses running and the expansion projects that provide more access to the system. While the first two years of the 2010-2014 capital budget were funded, there is a $10 billion deficit in the remaining three. So far, there doesn’t seem to be any plan from the city, state, or federal government to find this funding. In fact, between the State Senate’s goal of repealing the MTA payroll tax and the House GOP’s budget-slashing, there may be more obvious paths to the MTA losing revenue than gaining it.
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Source: NY PostAs the 2011 New York Yankees baseball season begins, the New York City Department of Transportation wants to make sure that fans are getting home safe after games. The New York City Department of Transportation’s You the Man campaign, which began in February 2010, targets adults between the ages of 21 and 39 who may be likely to get into a drinking- or driving-related accident.q
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Source: YourNabe.comDozens of transit workers and community leaders gathered in downtown Jamaica Monday evening to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the anniversary of his death and continue his fight for equal rights for hardworking, blue-collar residents.
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Source: NY Daily NewsMayor Bloomberg's critics say he has spent his third term at the helm of the Titanic - confidently ramming his ship into an iceberg, then deluding himself that it isn't sinking.
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Source: WFAN / APA day after the judge handling the NFL lockout lawsuit urged the sides to go "back to the table," the players and owners both expressed a willingness to do so. The hitch: Each offered to meet for talks in a setting the other finds unpalatable.
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Source:Many federal employees faced uncertainty about what a furlough would mean for them.
April 7, 2011
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Source:This story has been updated and corrected. WASHINGTON -- A divisive budget battle between labor unions and Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) turned a state Supreme Court race into a nationally watched bellwether on the electorate's mood heading into a recall campaign and the 2012 elections.
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Source:New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the biggest U.S. mass-transit operator, runs one of the most efficient subways while its bus and rail services lag behind other cities, a report said.
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