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Updated Four-Year MTA Budget Plan Pairs Service Improvements With Looming Fare Hikes

2013-07-26 11:34:13| Railroads - Topix.net

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has good news and bad news for bus and subway riders, as millions of dollars in service improvements will be paired with looming fare hikes.

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The looming water crisis

2013-07-03 15:37:52| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Saturday Evening Post: Kylan Frye steers her Subaru station wagon along the slushy roadways of the Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area at the edge of Utahs Great Salt Lake. Its a February afternoon, gray and cold, and a layer of snow covers the wetlands that spread for miles around us. The Wasatch Range rises ruggedly in the background, but otherwise it feels like were driving through a barren white sea, indistinguishable from the pale sky if not for the occasional dots of sagebrush, sedge, and cottonwood. The...

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Strike looming for UPS workers in Louisville?

2013-06-27 08:57:06| Trucking - Topix.net

Even though unionized United Parcel Service Inc. workers approved a national master contract in a vote last week, Teamsters Local 89 president Fred Zuckerman said he believes a strike could still be on the horizon for Louisville-area UPS workers.

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