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This is the top 10 most recently popular articles from our networkTribune: CTA Bus Drivers' Pay Ranks Third Nationally
Photo by TheeErin This morning, the Tribune's Jon Hilkevitch reports that the highest pay for CTA bus drivers ranks third in the nation at $28.64 per hour and, when adjusted for the city's cost of living, comes in first. The top bus driver pay in the nation goes to Boston's MBTA at $30.18 an hour; New York comes in sixth overall at $27.99 an hour. Top pay for Pace drivers is $24.93 an hour, 17th overall. The report comes at a time when the CTA is trying to draw the CTA unions to the negotiating table to reconfigure contracts...
Continue Reading 'Tribune: CTA Bus Drivers' Pay Ranks Third Nationally'Soda Tax Gathering Momentum
As Governor Paterson returns to Albany today to headline a symposium about a revived penny-per-ounce soda tax, he's picked up some more support from Mayor Bloomberg, who's always up for taxing vice. "In these tough economic times, easy fixes to our problems are hard to come by," said Bloomberg during his radio address yesterday. "But the soda tax is a fix that just makes sense. It would save lives. It would cut rising health care costs. And it would keep thousands of teachers and nurses where they belong: in the classrooms and clinics." Bloomberg had supported a tax on...
Continue Reading 'Soda Tax Gathering Momentum'Thanks for Making the 2010 DCist Exposed Show Our Biggest Yet
We had a feeling that by holding the 2010 DCist Exposed Photography Show at the 5,000 sq. ft. Long View Gallery, we'd encourage a few more people to attend the opening reception this year. But we're not sure we were emotionally prepared for Saturday's big event to draw close to double the number of people who showed up last year. Eager early birds started lining up outside the door half an hour before the gallery even opened, peering in through the windows as we hurried to finish setting up the bars and music. By the end of the evening, roughly...
Continue Reading 'Thanks for Making the 2010 DCist Exposed Show Our Biggest Yet'Video: "Hey Jude" Subway Sing-a-long
Reader Scott caught this moment on tape at around 10:30 last night in the Times Square subway station—it's sort of similar to the "Hey Jude" sing-a-long that went down during the Newark kissing bandit/security breach episode. Maybe the Beatles song is the official theme of delays?...
Continue Reading 'Video: "Hey Jude" Subway Sing-a-long'Shocking: Ahmadenijad Thinks 9/11 Is A "Big Lie"
Oh, that Mahmoud Ahmadenijad! The provocative, disbelieving Iranian leader is back in the news for some remarks he made to the Iranian Intelligence Ministry, calling the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center a "complicated intelligence scenario and act." He also said, "The September 11 incident was a big fabrication as a pretext for the campaign against terrorism and a prelude for staging an invasion against Afghanistan." According to Reuters, "He did not elaborate." Ahmadejnijad has repeatedly brought up the attacks, once saying, they were "a result of mismanaging and inhumane managing of the world by the...
Continue Reading 'Shocking: Ahmadenijad Thinks 9/11 Is A "Big Lie"'Gallery Place Could See More Electronic Billboards
An advertising agency is hoping to place eight more of those big LED billboards around Gallery Place, as the Washington Business Journal reported on Friday. Orange Barrel Media plans to submit applications this month to the D.C. Office of Planning for six electronic street kiosks and two 45-foot-tall vertical signs to be placed outside the Gallery Place complex. They would join the three big displays already up at the corner of 7th and H Streets NW. As you might imagine, the plans have already drawn vocal opposition, complete with a dedicated web site, stopthebillboard.org, which argues that the billboards are...
Continue Reading 'Gallery Place Could See More Electronic Billboards'Amercian Al Qaeda Spokeman Arrested in Karachi
FBI/AP images of Adam Gadahn Pakistani officials say they’ve arrested the California-born al qaeda leader who, since attending training camps in 2004, has been the terrorist group’s mouthpiece in half a dozen videos. Just today Adam Gadahn spoke in a video commending the army major who opened fire at a military base in Fort Hood, Texas killing 13 people. "You shouldn't make the mistake of thinking that military bases are the only high-value targets in America and the West. On the contrary, there are countless other strategic places, institutions and installations which, by striking, the Muslim can do major...
Continue Reading 'Amercian Al Qaeda Spokeman Arrested in Karachi'Woman Arrested For Beating Dog With Shovel
Spike the bulldog Awful: A Queens woman was caught on video beating an 11-month-old English bull dog with a snow shovel. The Daily News reports that Maria Aguilar, who allegedly crippled the dog with her months of abuse, was arrested and charged with animal cruelty and criminal possession of a weapon. The ASPCA says the dog, Spike, had "a hip fracture, a broken leg, three broken teeth and injuries to his ears," plus he's "virtually blind in his right eye." The ASPCA went to Aguilar's home last month after calls about a dog crying: "One of the witnesses used...
Continue Reading 'Woman Arrested For Beating Dog With Shovel'Study: Obama Voters Could Have Pushed Bloomberg Out
According to a new study, if all the first-time voters that helped elect Obama had cast their ballots in the November mayoral election, Democrat Bill Thompson might be sitting in Bloomberg's seat. "Bill Thompson only lost by 50,000 votes," CUNY Prof. John Mollenkopf told the News. "If only 50% of new voters came out, Thompson would be mayor. ... Here was a chance to knock off an incumbent mayor, to elect the second black mayor in New York history. If they had mobilized, it would have been huge, huge, huge news." Unfortunately the newly political set was hung over...
Continue Reading 'Study: Obama Voters Could Have Pushed Bloomberg Out'NY Soda Tax: Ready to Pop
In NY state, Big Gulps are poised to become the new cigarettes. Health officials say they’re ready to instate a tax on fizzy drinks that contribute to obesity rates; they want to charge an extra cent for every ounce of sugary soda (diet sodas are exempt since they contain no calories). On Monday the city and state health commissioners will meet with Gov. Paterson, who’s previously supported such a tax, to hash out a plan. "This is one good thing we could do during a miserable year in Albany," State Health Commissioner Richard Daines told the Daily News. According...
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