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Tom Hall: Sometimes, conspiracy theories implode on themselves. Our freedoms are preserved by the 2nd Amendment solution of shooting first and checking facts later. This theory worked for the looney putz who shot Trayvon Martin – just see how free he's been since 'defending his rights.'
Flint 1936, Birmingham 1963: Two Protests That Changed American History
Mark Naison: Two examples from America's history show how protest movements that involved grave risk, that broke the law, and that used extremely controversial and disruptive practices, helped organize America's workers and brought an end to legal segregation.
The Troops and Occupy Wall Street
Tina Dupuy: Meet the new face of Occupy Wall Street: Scott Olsen, a 24-year-old Marine and Iraq War vet who was shot in the head with a "non-lethal round" during a raid on Occupy Oakland last week.
On Neo-Tory Counter-Revolutionaries
Bob Barker: today's "Conservative Republicans" are a serious, amoral army of ignorant, self-centered, social predators driven by greed and power.
The Value of Collective Bargaining
Steve Hochstadt: As grass-roots organizations, unions are feared by dictators. All of the world's dictatorships, whether left or right, have banned free unions.
Tea Kettle Crowd: So You Want Your Country Back?
Wayne Williams: Now, if you can't face the truth of living in the present and come to the table rather than be the party of no and hate, the rest of us are going to move forward and do it without out you.
Whom Do You Trust?
Steve Hochstadt: Those who want government to go away, or at least get a lot smaller, seem to have two ideas about how to shrink government: Cut out the "waste" and let private companies take over many of its functions. Their assumption is that the private sector can do these jobs better and cheaper. Is that true?
Dear Tea Party Member
Mike Price: Okay, not hate. But we surely feel sorry for sheep-like tea party puppets destroying our country for no other reason than they're too mentally lazy to think for themselves.
Can Obama Change America's Understanding of Class and Dissent?
Class conflict. Political dissent. What it means to be an American. Many people assume these things are incompatible. Throughout America's history, most U.S. citizens denied the reality of class divisions in their midst, seeing them as either European or somehow related to Soviet communism. And political dissent has not been understood to be central to […]


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Boustany urges President and Congressional Democrats to open negotiations
U.S. Representative Charles W. Boustany, Jr., R-Southwest Louisiana, today urged President Obama and Congressional Democrats to honor their pledge to open health care negotiations for C-Span to televise for the American public.
"Writing a massive, trillion-dollar health-care bill in the dark, as Congressional Democrats and this Administration are doing, leads to unintended consequences, favored special interests and continues a broken system in Washington," Boustany said. "The President needs to make good on his promise to make these negotiations public.
If Congressional Democrats have nothing to hide in this massive health-care overhaul, C-Span should be allowed to televise the process for the American public. The President made a promise to allow C-Span to broadcast the negotiations, and he should keep his word to the American people."
Speaking about health care reform at a 2007 event, then candidate Obama said, "[w]e will work on this process publicly. It will be on C-Span. It will be streaming over the Net." Throughout the presidential campaign, Obama frequently cited his promise to allow C-Span access to televise health care reform negotiations.
Boustany supports providing patients and doctors with more information and more choices about health insurance and services. By increasing choices and competition and making insurance companies more accountable to patients, the resulting lower costs will allow more families to develop a quality doctor-patient relationship.


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Millz_Monroe 1942 days ago
goldentroll 1949 days ago
Save the sweet science... CRUSH MANNY!
GRVictor 1950 days ago
Money... would you do us a favor and kick that yellow crap's ass??? Do it for us the fans!!
JRaz2k11 1954 days ago
"Cash Cow" is afraid and/or avoiding Manny, you know that you're gonna hit the floor man
Floydsathug 1955 days ago
What cash cow turns down 50 millon to fight a tiny asian? More like a cash chicken....coward
Jonnygillard 1955 days ago
Mannys a great fighter but if someone offered me 25mil to take a blood test Id chop my arm off.
Jonnygillard 1955 days ago
Dude, he aint a faggot. He may be excessive and say uncool things but look at his record.
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Sarah Chaput de Saintonge has seriously loved photography for about six years and has experimented with many genres in her own work. She attended Career Training in 2011 and has worked as an assistant and instructor since. Sarah graduated with a degree in photojournalism from the University of Montana. She enjoys portraiture, self-portraiture and anything else that involves gorgeous natural light. She loves all Adobe software and loves helping students learn it too. She also loves film photography. She grew up in a small town in Alaska, but now lives in Missoula with Forest and their crazy cats, Apollo and Pepe.
Joyce Fielding
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Joyce Fielding joined the RMSP team in the summer of 2014 as the Education Logistics Coordinator. She manages the "behind the scenes" arrangements of venues and travel for all programs. Joyce's busy home life revolves around her husband, four children and their black lab. She enjoys gardening, hiking, antiquing and reading.
Marcy James
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Marcy James is a fine art documentary photographer who began teaching for RMSP during the old wet processing days when her passion was building pinhole cameras and working with antiquarian photo processes. Today, she has merged antiquarian methods with digital technology and has a special love for exploring the importance and potential with how our images live in the world regardless of whether we are presenting our work through the web or with exhibitions. Today, if she's not out walking the hills of Missoula with her family, you will find her photographing in her favorite fictional landscape, No Mans Land
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Andy is a Missoula native and graduate of the photojournalism program at the University of Montana. A perfect day for Andy includes creating impactful and energetic images, drinking coffee, eating burritos, skateboarding and/or snowboarding, watching Hot Dog: The Movie and laughing with his wife and daughter.
Tony Rix
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Tony is a Wisconsin native who graduated from RMSP in 2008 and joined the RMSP team in late 2010. He is responsible for maintaining all the digital systems at the school and, with degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Information Technology, he is usually the biggest geek in the room. In his free time, he can usually be found hiking, kayaking, camping, working out at the gym, or sitting in front of a computer.
Melanie Wright
Customer Service Specialist
Melanie began her association with Rocky Mountain School of Photography attending numerous workshops and the 2006 Digital Intensive program. In 2007, she joined the RMSP team as their Customer Service Coordinator and first point of contact for the school. Photography, baking, reading, hiking, and spending time with her husband Dennis and their dog Lucy fills her free time.


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John Browning (pianist)
John Browning (May 23, 1933 – January 26, 2003)[1] was an American pianist known for his reserved, elegant style and sophisticated interpretations of Bach and Scarlatti, and for his collaboration with the American composer Samuel Barber.
Browning was born to musical parents in Denver, Colorado, in 1933. He studied piano from age 5 with his mother and, at the age of 10, was accepted as a student by Rosina Lhévinne.[2] He appeared as a soloist with the Denver Symphony Orchestra later that same year.
In 1945 his family moved to Los Angeles, California. He spent two years at Occidental College there. He began his studies at the Juilliard School in New York with Rosina Lhévinne in 1950. He won the Leventritt Competition in 1955 and made his professional orchestral debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1956.[3] At this point his career came under the management of well known talent manager Herbert Barrett, later signing with Columbia Artists Management Inc. in the early 1990s.
In 1962 he gave the premiere of Samuel Barber's Pulitzer Prize-winning Piano Concerto, which was written for him, in connection with the opening of Lincoln Center. He subsequently made a commercial recording of the work for Columbia with George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra. His second recording of the work, with Leonard Slatkin and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra in 1991 for RCA Victor, won a Grammy Award for best instrumental soloist with orchestra. Browning won a second Grammy in 1993 with a disc of Barber's solo works on MusicMasters.[3] He continued to follow the works of contemporary American composers but found relatively few to his liking.
Browning developed a busy career, giving some 100 concerts a season.[3] He eased his schedule in the 1970s, explaining later that he had grown ragged from overwork. In the 1990s, his career had something of a renaissance. His last public appearance was at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in April 2002.[3]
His last performance of all was to an invited audience at the United States Supreme Court in May 2002.[1] He died (from heart failure) at the age of 69 some eight months later in Sister Bay, Wisconsin.
John Browning is remembered for his penetrating, intellectual interpretations of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, and Scarlatti, among others, and for his many recordings of the works of these and other composers. Browning recorded for the Capitol, Columbia, RCA, Delos and Music Masters labels.
- ^ a b Boston Globe, obituary, by Richard Dyer, January 30, 2003, pg. C.14
- ^ Slonimsky, Nicolas; Theodore Baker (1992). Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Eighth Edition. New York, New York: Schirmer Books.
- ^ a b c d New York Times, obituary, "John Browning, 69, Pianist With Reserved, Elegant Style", by James Oestreich, January 28, 2003, p. C.15
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- Live performance by John Browning in May 2002 for National Public Radio
- John Browning's 1966 tour of Southern Africa organised by Hans Adler - dedications, a program and introduction.[1]
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BARRE A Granite City man has admitted having sex with an underage girl and committing other violations.
Seth A. Bell, 19, pleaded guilty to felonious sexual assault, two counts of acts prohibited and two violations of conditions of release in Washington County criminal court Friday. As part of the plea, Bell has agreed to a sentence of six years deferred and four to five days in jail; an additional felony charge of sexual assault and two counts of violating conditions of release have been dismissed.
Judge Thomas Zonay has ordered a pre-sentence investigation.
In pleading guilty, Bell admitted the facts in the police affidavit to be true. According to the affidavit, he had consensual sex with the girl once in February 2012 when she was 13 years old, at his mothers house in Worcester, and twice in April 2012 when the girl was 14 years old, in his truck behind a school in Waterbury.
On the violations of conditions of release, Bell admitted he had been communicating with the girl by Facebook, text messages and 31 phone calls. As a condition of Bells release, he is not to have contact with her or anyone else younger than 16.MORE IN This Just InHarwood Union graduate Haley Spittle was named North Atlantic Conference Player of the Week after... Full StoryTHETFORD Mondays rapid-fire, back-and-forth duel ended with a defensive chess match in overtime. Full StoryBERLIN When it comes to the towns promise to take over a privately run water system that... Full Story
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Posted on 02/17/2012 8:59:54 AM PST by crosshairs
Fooled them again.
"It's quit'n time.."!!
Larry, are you there?
Gotta get my jaw workin' before I pick up Larry..
"This fundraising is getting exhausting! Jaw flapping is work!"
"Geez, Michelle. I keep telling you that you burp like this. Not out the other end."
"It's fun to stay at the Y MCA!"
"This is what Joe's face looked like when I asked him what we should get Barney Frank for his going away party."
"Its quitn time..!! Alright!
One of the best lines I've heard lately was from a retired shop foreman at the old Republic Steel plant in Cleveland,OH
When a young black kid was being laid off. The black kid said to the shop foreman: "You're firing me because I'm black!" The foreman thought a moment and replied: "No, we hired you because you were black." "We're firing you because you are useless!" Sounds like a possible slogan for the 2012 election.
A lot of people voted for Obama because he is black.
Now we need to fire him because he is USELESS.......
I wish he was singing this Merle Haggard classic - "Take This Job and Shove It"!
Here's Johnny Paycheck live at the Grand Old Opry:
Sing along like Barry!
<"Day-o, day-a-a-o ............"
Monica...where you been hidin girl?
Monica...where you been hidin girl?
"And then Larry opened his mouth real wide, like this ..."
I don't think he would find Monica very attractive. Larry Sinclair, Reggie Love, Robert Titcomb (close friend and gay prostitute solicitor?), or some other guy is more likely.
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Stand up, prisoners of starvation
Reason thunders in its volcano
This is the eruption of the end
Of the past let us make a clean slate
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We are nothing, let us be all:
This is the final struggle
Let us group together, and tomorrow
The Internationale
Will be the human race!
Yo Ho Yo Ho a Pirate's life for me!
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'Glee'-inspired reality show set in La Crosse
La Crosse's "ambassadors of music," the Grand River Singers are stars of a reality show "Off Pitch," premiering on VH1 April 17.
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Now a medical professor, 50 years ago he was in 'Charade'
Thomas Chelimsky did not become a movie star.
A brush with Elizabeth Taylor helped steer the former child actor away from film, and he chose a career path that led to his becoming professor and chairman of the Department of Neurology at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2011. »Read Full Article(8)
Milwaukee saying goodbye to Onion, A.V. Club with 3 free parties
Of course a staff member of the Onion would crack a joke about the satirical paper's final print issue on Dec. 12.
"When the Madison Onion closed down last year, the editors there ran a piece that called for a city riot," said Matt Wild, city editor since 2011 for the Onion and its local arts and entertainment section and website A.V. Club Milwaukee. "I will be making a special request of the city that hopefully will not be quite as illegal." »Read Full Article(26)
Singles Scorecard: Hear new songs from U2, the Killers and Yo La Tengo
U2, featuring frontman Bono (above) is back with its first proper song since 2009, "Ordinary Love." Reuters photo by Paulo Whitaker. »Read Full Blog Post
Reading the John Updike stories: 'The Lucid Eye in Silver Town'
I'm reading and commenting on a story from The Library of America's recently published 'John Updike: The Collected Stories' each Wednesday until I finish the collection or give up.
In "The Lucid Eye in Silver Town," Jay August looks back on a day trip he made at age 13 with his father Martin from small-town Pennsylvania to New York City. Before I delve into the story, I have to ask: Couldn't many different Updike stories be called "The Lucid Eye" in, on or around something else? »Read Full Blog Post
Too much testosterone at the Business Journal?
Forgive me, but am I to understand that Milwaukee's "power brokers" in real estate, construction and architecture are an "intriguing mix" of all men?
Are these the best bars in Milwaukee?
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On Tap Today: Cudahy Carolers and an alt Nutcracker
You have to wonder how this one would play beyond state lines. Come and be in the know by the nature of where you're located at "A Cudahy Caroler Christmas," a theater production that has a bit of fun with Milwaukee south siders. The musical show includes numbers such as "O Little Town of Cudahy" to the tune of "O Little Town of Bethlehem" and "We T'ree Guys" for "We Three Kings."
Or how about a version of "The Nutcracker" in trees and poinsettias rather that ballerinas and toy soldiers? Or, if you are in the mood for some dance, why not stop in to see some studying dancers and support the work they do with a pay-what-you-can bargain. »Read Full Blog Post


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After James Arthur launched into another Twitter outburst on Sunday - where he compared himself to an exploited killer whale - we didn't know quite how to react.
But his 'Jarmy' of fans certainly did.
The X Factor winner posted a string of messages where he compared himself to an exploited killer whale and slammed the promo team who are behind some of his tweets.
But the outspoken 26-year-old finished by asking his fans to send in new artwork for his upcoming album All The World's A Stage.
He tweeted: "I would like the front cover to be a drawing of the killer whale/ Orca from sea world who features in the documentary "Blackfish" TILIKUM."
"Ideally I'd like him to be attacking a crowd of people, lashing out after being exploited. Include my name and the title of the mixtape."
Fans have stormed the star's social media page ever since with some very impressive drawings indeed.
@JamesArthur23 my crap cover! Oh well I gave it ago! #AllTheWorldsAStage #love pic.twitter.com/D41JQsk6KH— Lisa Gregory (@Lissa_gregory1) March 28, 2014
One shows an angry-looking whale creeping up behind a terrified crowd with its huge teeth bared.
The singer began retweeting the drawings almost straight away and congratulated his fans on their artistic skills.
Another shows a whale chained down to the ground by black silhouetted figures with blood stains everywhere.
They're actually all a little scary.
@JamesArthur23 @DanMcCauley22 @BongoLegs my front cover of #AllTheWorldsAStage March,24 pic.twitter.com/rXhOpOWimm— Ho! Caroline (@BrideOfJA) March 24, 2014
It comes after the star also slammed his promo team in the rant, saying they were "embarrassing".
He wrote: "HQ please stop writing things like 'we think you would #LOVE This and that' or 'everybody #GETDOWN and buy this..' It's embarrassing.
"Stick to promoting Paul Potts please. Thanks. #LOVE."
It wasn't long before Britain's Got Talent winner Paul caught wind of James' cutting comments and hit back.
"You're a talented guy and ur music is great. But you're not an amateur anymore. Criticising ur promotion team openly on here... isn't the best idea," he wrote.
"Their wages come out of your budget and there will come a time when you need them more than they need u."
Strong words, Potts.
James was quick to clarify what he meant and tweeted back: "Hi Paul, I'm afraid I've been misunderstood. The dig I made at my 'HQ' was because we appear to have the same 'HQ'."
My #AllTheWorldsAStage cover @JamesArthur23 is not as good as others but I've put all my Love,heart & gratitude on it pic.twitter.com/zIzdOW0Ut0— Ana Mac (@the_teacher_ana) March 28, 2014
But it hasn't done him any harm with his Jarmy - some of these drawings must have taken hours.
Another, slightly more grotesque effort, shows a whale chomping on James' tattooed arm with dead bodies strewn around him.
How very upbeat.
We can't wait to see which one he chooses to appear on all those highstreet shelves.


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A Mount Pleasant woman has told police that a man was peering in her bedroom window Wednesday night.
Police were called to a ground-floor apartment on Harbor Pointe Drive about 7 p.m., according to the incident report. The resident told officers she saw a face peering through a small section of the blinds that was missing.
The woman told police she had heard sounds outside her window several times over the last month but always assumed it was an animal.
She described the peeping Tom as a black man about 35 years old, with dreadlocks, wearing black and magenta pants that appeared to be baggy, and a baggy white shirt or jacket.
The apartment complex is accessible by foot from Northcutt Plaza, according to the report. Officers said they checked several restaurants, since the clothing matched outfits worn by men who prepare food. No leads were reported.


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Saturday Rewind: Utah is Legit, Kentucky Cruises, and a Thriller in Richmond…Posted by Henry Bushnell on December 14th, 2014
It was another whirlwind December Saturday of hoops, as 14 of 25 ranked teams were in action, and plenty major conference programs challenged themselves. Here's how it all transpired.
Kansas 63, Utah 60
- The Game: This wasn't your everyday, wire-to-wire battle. Kansas had seemingly left Utah in the dust with a 23-2 run toward the end of the first half that gave them a 39-21 halftime lead. But possession by possession, the Utes chipped away after the break, and reclaimed the lead with 4:39 to play. But Kansas didn't miss a single shot – field goals or free throws – the rest of the way and escaped with the win in Kansas City.
- Kansas Verdict: After the 32-point beatdown at the hands of Kentucky in mid-November, Kansas was rather rudely shoved to the background of the national college basketball picture. But since, the Jayhawks have somewhat quietly strung together some really nice wins – first over Michigan State and Florida, then at Georgetown, and now this one Saturday. However, it's not as if Kansas has cruised – rather, it has labored through all four, and on different days, could've lost any of the four. Obviously this team is young, but it's far from complete, and guard play in particular is a worry. Frank Mason and Wayne Selden looked worryingly out of sync during Saturday's second half. So while the wins will look nice on Kansas' résumé, Bill Self still has a lot of work to do.
- Utah Verdict: Are the Utes legit? This game would seem to indicate they are. They are essentially a two-man team surrounded by role players, but those two men – Delon Wright and Jakob Poeltl – are really impressive. Wright is a true multi-faceted star no matter how you look at him, and Poeltl is a handful down low. And while Utah lacks some offensive punch – they scored 2 points in 10 late-first-half minutes – what stood out today was team defense. That's what allowed them to mount their comeback. Over a 17-minute second half stretch, the Utes held Kansas to 11 points, and gradually, they climbed out of the 21-point hole with stop after stop. It wasn't enough in the end, but a three-point loss is nothing to hang your head about – especially when you consider Utah was without Jordan Loveridge, arguably the team's third best player, who should return in January.
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With the Knicks putting on an impressive showing against the Heat, who is the best team in the East?
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Last year was last year. The Knicks have the best record in the East and if anyone says that the Heat are better than the Knicks after being EMBARRASS...Full Comment »
What is this? Judging teams after 17 games into the season? This is what the regular season is for. Teams play to get better, and to gel. The Knicks a...Full Comment »
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Knicks=10-1 this year in the East...end of debate. Alot of those wins are by double digits also.Full Comment »
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Can lay people deliver asthma self-management education as effectively as primary care based practice nurses?
- 1NHLI Division, Imperial College London, London, UK
- 2The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- 3North West Lung Centre, Manchester, UK
- Professor M R Partridge, Imperial College London, NHLI Division, Charing Cross Hospital, St Dunstan's Road, London W6 8RP, UK; m.partridge{at}imperial.ac.uk
- Received 23 May 2007
- Accepted 31 January 2008
- Published Online First 15 February 2008
Objectives: To determine whether well trained lay people could deliver asthma self-management education with comparable outcomes to that achieved by primary care based practice nurses.
Design: Randomised equivalence trial.
Setting: 39 general practices in West London and North West England.
Participants: 567 patients with asthma who were on regular maintenance therapy. 15 lay educators were recruited and trained to deliver asthma self-management education.
Intervention: An initial consultation of up to 45 min offered either by a lay educator or a practice based primary care nurse, followed by a second shorter face to face consultation and telephone follow-up for 1 year.
Main outcome measures: Unscheduled need for healthcare.
Secondary outcome measures: Patient satisfaction and need for courses of oral steroids.
Results: 567 patients were randomised to care by a nurse (n = 287) or a lay educator (n = 280) and 146 and 171, respectively, attended the first face to face educational session. During the first two consultations, management changes were made in 35/146 patients seen by a practice nurse (24.0%) and in 56/171 patients (32.7%) seen by a lay educator. For 418/567 patients (73.7%), we have 1 year data on use of unscheduled healthcare. Under an intention to treat approach, 61/205 patients (29.8%) in the nurse led group required unscheduled care compared with 65/213 (30.5%) in the lay led group (90% CI for difference −8.1% to 6.6%; 95% CI for difference −9.5% to 8.0%). The 90% CI contained the predetermined equivalence region (−5% to +5%) giving an inconclusive result regarding the equivalence of the two approaches. Despite the fact that all patients had been prescribed regular maintenance therapy, 122/418 patients (29.2%) required courses of steroid tablets during the course of 1 year. Patient satisfaction following the initial face to face consultation was similar in both groups.
Conclusions: It is possible to recruit and train lay educators to deliver a discrete area of respiratory care, with comparable outcomes to those seen by nurses.
Trial registration number: NCT00129987
▸ The appendix is published online only at http://thorax.bmj.com/content/vol63/issue9
MR Partridge and A-L Caress contributed equally to the project.
Funding: This study was funded by the BUPA Foundation.
Competing interests: None.
Ethics approval: Ethics approval was obtained.


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Snapshot | A Tip Jar in Soho
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Some free food for thought was emblazoned on a tip jar at a restaurant at Prince Street and Sixth Ave. in Soho on Wednesday.
Former GM Exec: Automakers Should Focus Less on Stock Price...and Yes, I Flipped Over An Opel
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Bob Lutz, a former GM executive who championed the Volt, was interviewed this morning on the Brian Lehrer Show about his new book, Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business. In the book, he argues the auto industry needs to focus more on quality and customer service and less on stock price. Below are some highlights from today's Brian Lehrer Show interview.
Regarding the auto industry meltdown: "Management with more of a focus on the customer and excellence would have prevented it."
On US automakers versus Japanese automakers: "The playing field now is absolutely level."
Does he envision an America with all electric cars? "I don't, because range is always going to be a factor."
Did you flip over an Opel during a J turn? "Yes I did...there was an argument with the engineers who claimed the car couldn't be flipped because we'd had some reports of the cars flipping over in the United States. I went out and performed the test and promptly put it on its roof."
You can listen to the interview below.
TN MOVING STORIES: False Alarms Plague NY MTA Elevators, NJ Transit Increases Security, and Mimes To Promote Quiet Cars On Boston T
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Florida Governor Rick Scott sent his top transportation adviser to Central Florida to warn local officials that they'll be on the hook if SunRail fails. (St. Petersburg Times)
The monitoring systems on New York MTA elevators are plagued by false alarms. (New York Daily News)
São Paolo, Brazil, is building an 11-mile long monorail to link its airport to its subway system -- but it may not be completed in time for the 2014 World Cup. (Smart Planet)
The Miami Herald asks officials not to penalize riders because of the scandal at Miami-Dade Transit.
According to a recent poll, NJ governor Christie's support is dropping among voters because of decisions like canceling the ARC tunnel and flying in a state helicopter to attend his son's baseball game. (Bloomberg)
NJ Transit is increasing security and developing an intelligence unit with the FBI. (AP via the Star-Ledger)
A key House Democrat says privatizing Amtrak would drain railroad workers' pensions. (The Hill)
A former GM vice chair will be on the Brian Lehrer Show later on this morning to talk about his view of car manufacturing -- more quality, less focus on stock price. (WNYC)
More on Boston's "quiet car" program, including the revelation that the MBTA will be using mimes to promote it. (WBUR)
Snapshot | Final Day of School
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Tuesday marked the final day of school for the city's public school students.
TN MOVING STORIES: Florida's Commuter Rail Fate To Be Decided This Week, and Less NYkers Driving Over MTA-Tolled Bridges
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Florida Congressman John Mica has been pushing SunRail for years -- but is he dedicated to commuter rail, or to earmarks for CSX? (New York Times)
Meanwhile: Florida Governor Rick Scott says he'll decide the fate of the SunRail project this week. (The Hill)
And: Scott has the lowest approval rating of any governor in the nation, in part because of unpopular decisions like killing that state's high-speed rail project. (New York Times)
How feasible is President Obama's gas mileage goal of 56.2 miles per gallon by 2025? (The Takeaway)
Boston's MBTA is expanding its "quiet car" program. (MyFox Boston)
German researchers say that a handful of cars "talking" to each other can reduce traffic congestion. (Autopia)
Maryland's proposed Red Line in Baltimore has received federal approval to move to the next phase of development -- meaning federal funding is likely to eventually come. (Baltimore Sun)
Zurich is piloting climate- and traffic-resistant sensors for vehicles, and designing ways to use mobile phones to access the data collected by the sensors. (Treehugger.com)
Less motorists are driving over the New York MTA's toll bridges. (New York Post)
TN MOVING STORIES: China Opens New Fast Rail Line, Virginia's Transportation Woes, and NY's MTA Slow to Pick Up Subway Garbage
Monday, June 27, 2011
New York's MTA fails to pick up garbage in about 100 subway stations on an average night. (New York Daily News)
The truck company involved in a deadly Amtrak crash in Nevada last week had been repeatedly cited for safety violations. (AP via Chicago Sun Times)
European cities are making driving miserable in order to curtail car use -- and boost public transit. (New York Times)
New York Times columnist Joe Nocera has been won over by the Chevy Volt. (Link)
Tolls are up on New York's MTA-owned bridges, but 20% of them score below the agency's midpoint in its ratings system. (New York Post)
China opens its Beijing-Shanghai high speed rail link to the public this week, barely three years after construction began. The trains will travel the 820 miles in just under 5 hours. (Telegraph)
Why is it so hard to get a transportation project off the ground in Virginia? "I don't think Richmond gets northern Virginia and I don't think traditional transportation engineers understand or even support the new science of land use and transportation," says one urban planner. (AP via Washington Post)
Philadelphia -- which has seen a 151% increase in bike commuting in the last decade -- is gaining a reputation as a bike-friendly, transit-using, walkable city. (Philadelphia Daily News)
Snapshot | Same-Sex Wedding Window Display in Union Square
Friday, June 24, 2011
A same-sex marriage display appears in the window of the Levis Store on 14th Street near Union Square.
TN MOVING STORIES: House Legislation Floats Federal Ban on Cell Phones While Driving, and NJ Transit and Amtrak Suspend Service 3X This Week
Friday, June 24, 2011
A NY Congresswoman introduced legislation that aims to institute a federal ban on cell phone use while driving. (Detroit Free Press)
This week, power problems forced NJ Transit and Amtrak to suspend service three times on three consecutive days. (Star-Ledger)
The Chicago area's Regional Transit Authority says it may have to start cutting service next month if the state doesn't pay it the $400 million it owes. (Chicago Tribune)
On the Brian Lehrer Show today, a correspondent from NPR's "Planet Money" will explain the impact of President Obama's decision to release 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. (WNYC)
Are lower sales the auto industry's 'new normal'? "So why does it matter if you sell 17 million cars, rather than 12 million? Jobs." (NPR)
New York's MTA says it's on track for a December 2013 opening of the #7 subway extension. (NY1)
Richard Florida writes that commuting to work by bike makes you healthier and happier. (The Atlantic)
Tesla is ceasing production of the Roadster. (Fast Company)
Rallies and Rancor: Emails From the PPW Bike Lane Saga
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Wednesday was the first day of formal court hearings in Brooklyn's Prospect Park West bike lane case (see our coverage here for more information). And as we reported, the judge adjourned the case for a month to give the group suing the city time to review the documents from a Freedom of Information Law request it made.
We are also looking at those documents. Here's the background:
Soon after Neighbors for Better Bike Lanes/Seniors for Safety (NBBL) filed a lawsuit earlier this year seeking the removal of the Prospect Park West bike lane, the group's attorney, Jim Walden, submitted a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request seeking all records AND /emails between New York City Council member Brad Lander and/or his staff and a group of known bike-lane supporters.
In a statement today, Walden said: "We are pleased that Justice Bunyan has given us adequate time to review the FOIL documents - all 691 pages of them – that Councilmember Lander provided the night before today's hearing. We are confident that we will find even more evidence that will help our case, given the close relationship between Councilmember Lander, DOT, and bike lane lobbyists."
Lander also provided Transportation Nation with copies of the emails.
It's no secret that the Brooklyn councilman is a longtime supporter of the PPW bike lane. He's filed an amicus brief in support of the New York City Department of Transportation (the agency being sued over the lane's installation), and he held a rally outside a Brooklyn courthouse Wednesday morning, just before the hearing. And an initial read of hundreds of pages of email correspondence between Lander and others, including members of Brooklyn's Community Board 6 and various bike advocates, provides a glimpse into Lander's strategy to advocate for the lane: facilitate public displays of support for the lane, make the case that Prospect Park West is now safer for everyone, and keep hammering home the message that both the data -- and the majority of Park Slope residents -- support the lane.
Below, some excerpts of the correspondence.
Following a New York Times profile of embattled city DOT commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, Lander moved to quickly mobilize support both at the grassroots level and in City Hall.
3/6/11 email from Brad Lander to Aaron Naparstek (founder of Streetsblog and bike lane advocate) and Paul Steely White (executive director of Transportation Alternatives, also a bike lane supporter):
"Yesterday's article obviously makes it even more imperative that we (a) win the April CB6 vote on PPW by a large margin, and (b) get the pedestrian islands poured quickly. So we're planning to treat the next 5 weeks like a mini-political campaign. Looking forward to working with you guys on this. I'm sharing this separately with a very small number of other mutual friends. Please keep it within this very tight circle, and be mindful of what it will look like in court. : - )"
3/7/11 email from Brad Lander to Howard Wolfson (NYC deputy mayor):
"There is very strong majority support for the PPW bike lane in Park Slope….We did an online survey (CM Levin*, CB6, and me), to which over 3,000 people responded. 70% of Park Slopers (including PPW residents, who were evenly split) favor keeping the lane. The calls, letters, emails, hearing & rally turnout, comments on the street, facebook pages, etc all run strongly (about 2 to 1) in favor of the lane. I know this may be different than in other neighborhoods around the city; but, well, it is Park Slope...Assuming that the Community Board votes in favor next month, I'm asking City Hall support DOT (and the community board, and the councilman, and majority sentiment in the neighborhood) on this one."
*NYC Council member Stephen Levin
When the bike lane isn't plowed, no one is happy – not even bike lane opponents.
1/23/11 email from Aaron Naparstek to Brad Lander:
"I've been asking around trying to figure out who is responsible for the PPW bike lane not being plowed for the second time in the last few weeks. I assumed it was Steisel* talking to some old friends in Sanitation. Tupper** – very off the record – says Marty*** has insisted that the PPW bike lane be the last street in Brooklyn that gets plowed and, for some reason, Sanitation is complying. Apparently not even Norman is happy with this. Tupper first asked Steisel if the lack of plowing was his doing. He said that the lack of plowing has actually made it harder for him to access his car and he doesn't like it either."
*Norman Steisel, former Deputy Mayor, former Sanitation Commissioner and member of Neighbors for Better Bike Lanes
** probably Tupper Thomas, the former head of the Prospect Park Alliance
*** Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn Borough President
Even if a few parking spaces are returned, the bike lane still probably won't please the borough president:
2/7/11 email from Brad Lander to David Woloch (deputy commissioner of external affairs for the NYC Department of Transportation):
"I'm waiting for a response from Carlo* on whether Boro Hall will take part in my 'let's find a few parking space' exercise. I was clear with him that the goal is to have it included in the CB6 resolution in favor of pouring concrete, but that Marty would of course be free to fulminate against the lanes until the end of time (or his term, whichever comes first)."
* probably Carlo Scissura, Marty Markowitz's chief of staff
About that survey: bike lane opponents were concerned about who would participate.
10/18/10 email from Lois Carswell (member of Neighbors for Better Bike Lanes) to Craig Hammerman (district manager of Brooklyn's Community Board 6); cc: Brad Lander
"But the larger concern is that anyone, anywhere can participate and receive consideration. The bike lobby is extremely well financed and organized. At the push of a button they can elicit hundreds if not thousands of responses from people who have never – and will never – cross the Brooklyn Bridge. This is something that is basically impossible to check. It is one thing to say that park users who do not like in Park Slope deserve to be heard, but to allow well organized bikers from anywhere in the city who have no intention of ever casting their eyes on Prospect Park West to influence the survey's outcome is just plain wrong. None of these people have to live with the dangerous, congested conditions and the defacement of a magnificent boulevard that installation of the bike lane has caused. Responses of Park Slope residents—especially those in the Prospect Park West corridor—should be heavily weighted. The others should be heavily discounted, even though they might support the overarching agenda of a bureaucracy which does not have to live with the consequences of its actions."
Sometimes Lander wanted to keep the more vocal bike lane supporters out of the spotlight:
3/8/11 email from Brad Lander to Aaron Naparstek and Paul Steely White (leading up to a press conference on the steps of City Hall):
"Can I make a somewhat sensitive request: For today, I think, it would be better to minimize the 'radical bike extremists' part of this story…so while it would indeed be great to have a few people at the presser, I'd like to keep the speaking to Park Slope leaders who have not already been tagged in this light…and I also think it makes sense (though I recognize this will read like a megalomaniac politician) to try to have people who reach out to TA*, Aaron, Streetsblog instead talk to me, Michael Cairl**, etc. (Sorry! I hope you know this is for the cause.")
* Transportation Alternatives
** Michael Cairl is the president of the Park Slope Civic Council
Lander felt that opponents weren't just reacting to the bike lanes.
12/12/10 email from Brad Lander to Aaron Naparstek:
"On the one hand, there is a strong outer borough populist strain, which is what I think is strongest in the opposition, and lumps bikes, Bloomberg, Park Slope/UWS*, congestion pricing all in one big lump. SO it doesn't help us much with this crowd that there is support in Park Slope for PPW. (And this is why I think it is hard to make Marty feel any pain on this: for him, culturally, this is an extension of the Atlantic Yards debate.)"
* Upper West Side of Manhattan
1/22/11 email from Brad Lander to Aaron Naparstek:
"Backlash is definitely more organic than that. Jimmy Oddo & Eric Ulrich & Lew Fidler & Dov Hikind & Jimmy Vacca* are all acting on their own here, none influenced by PPW. I think CQ** is very unlikely to get involved. It's not only the physical manifestation of Bloomberg (though it is very much that), but it also links the things they hate about Bloomberg with the things they hate about Park/Slope/Upper West Side/liberals."
* all are members of the New York City Council
** Christine Quinn, the Council speaker
It's not easy being one of the only elected officials who vocally supports the bike lane.
Despite his position as a bike lane standard bearer, at one point Lander seemed to be a bit piqued when he felt Transportation Alternatives had misrepresented his position on the bike lane as being lukewarm -- as shown in this 7/15/10 email from Brad Lander to Paul Steely White:
"We're very glad to get the pro-bike calls on the bike lanes, so that we will be able to report accurately that the calls are running strongly in favor of the bike lanes. But I wouldn't mind also getting a bit of credit with the TA crowd for being the only elected official who's been willing to stand up in support of this. Yes, I've tried to cover my flank a bit by asking for the data from the study period, and have tried to engage the NIMFY's* in an open spirit...but in every communication I've been straightforward about my support...so I certainly have not been winning any love from them! And as the only elected official I know of who's been willing to clearly express support...I'm taking plenty of their fire."
* Not In My Front Yard
And remember: other eyes may be reading.
3/9/11 email from Brad Lander to Eric McClure (founder of Park Slope Neighbors and a bike lane supporter), Aaron Naparstek, Benjamin Fried (editor of Streetsblog), Paul Steely White, Michael Freedman-Schnapp and Rachel Goodman (latter two are staffers in Lander's office):
"One thing it made us fairly certain of: this email chain will be subpoenaed!"
3/11/11 email from Brad Lander to Paul Steely White:
"I'm optimistic, but not taking anything for granted. I've been talking with CB6 (and transportation committee members, and will keep doing so, over the next week until the committee vote, and over the next month until the CB6 vote...NBBL may, of course, also reach out to CB6 members, but I think all are very clear that the 'alternative' is no 'compromise' but in fact the elimination of the bike lane. We are working with CB6 on the 'find a few more parking spots' plan, which I think (rightly) has a much better chance of being seen as an appropriate additional modification to address some of the PPW resident concerns....
PS: Hello Jim Walden!"
TN MOVING STORIES: DC Metro Drivers Concerned About Safety, MARTA Hikes Fares, and Saab is Circling the Drain
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Metro drivers in D.C. are concerned about their safety. (WAMU)
Now that the Prius is facing stiff competition from other hybrids, Toyota is trying to figure out how to stay ahead of the pack. (NPR)
NYC's outer-borough taxi plan may need some serious tweaking to pass the state Senate. (WNYC)
Atlanta's transit system, MARTA, raises fares substantially; the cost of a monthly pass has risen over 80% in two years. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Lawmakers held hearings on rail and transit security, and admitted rail will never be as secure as air travel. (The Hill)
Swedish automaker Saab, beset by financial problems, may not last much longer. (Marketplace)
Transit riders in Corpus Christi, Texas, will soon be able to pay via a magnetic fare card, and their buses will have internet connection. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
PPW Bike Lane Case: First Day Of Court Hearings
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Today was the first day of formal court proceedings in the lawsuit seeking to remove Brooklyn's contentious Prospect Park West bike lane -- and it will be the last for a month.
The courtroom, on the fourth floor of the Kings County Supreme Court in downtown Brooklyn, was standing room only. After the case was called, half a dozen attorneys approached the bar -- two for the plaintiff, two for City Council Member Brad Lander, who filed an amicus brief in support of the bike lane, and two on behalf of New York City. They all spoke quietly to Justice Bert Bunyan, who interjected questions from time to time.
Most of the conversation was inaudible -- and after about ten minutes, it was over when the judge adjourned the case. The next court date in the case is July 20th.
Jim Walden, the attorney suing the city on behalf of Neighbors for Better Bike Lanes/Seniors for Safety, had asked for additional time to review documents given to him that morning by City Council member Brad Lander. Walden requested Lander's emails with the city DOT and bike lane advocates under the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) , and he said this morning he had been given 671 documents.
Lander, a longtime bike lane supporter, held a pro-bike lane rally on the steps of the courthouse before today's proceedings. He was not in the courtroom.
Afterward, in a courthouse hallway, Walden said: "the city is hiding something and they do not want us to find it. And we're not going to give up until we do."
Walden contends the city is withholding all the documents related to a study on the safety of the lane. The city, as well as Council Member Brad Lander, maintains that the bike lane was requested through Park Slope's community board, that the process of considering and installing it was transparent, that the lane has made the street safer for everyone, and that city's Department of Transportation had a "rational basis" for installing the bike lane and that the agency always said the lane was permanent and never considered a trial. But all of that is beside the point, the city says, because the lawsuit was filed too late.
This case was filed under Article 78 proceedings, which has a four-month statute of limitations. The bike lane was installed in June 2010; the lawsuit seeking the lane's removal was filed eight months later.
Walden isn't convinced.
"Somebody had the bright idea to say crashes went down 16 percent when they really went up," he said. " Someone had the bright idea to say injuries went down 21 percent when they really went up. ... someone made that decision, and they're holding back the documents and keeping them secret. That is fundamentally inconsistent with the city's obligations."
Last month, city attorney Mark Muschenheim told Transportation Nation "we've already provided much of what they wanted through FOIL." A spokesman for the city DOT also said today that they've already produced "thousands" of documents.
When asked why he had FOILed Lander's emails, Walden said: "We believe clearly, given his own public statements, that the DOT told him in no uncertain terms it was a trial program, it was a trial bike lane. The city is now claiming that it was never a trial. It's the great bait-and-switch from the City of New York. They called it a trial so people wouldn't sue right away, they said they were going to conduct a study. Now in their papers they say the study never mattered. No matter what the study said, we were going to have a final decision to have the bike lane. So a thousand people could die, apparently, (and) according to the city's paper, that wouldn't matter. So we certainly hope the documents -- I can't say they'll put the lie to the city's position, because it's already clear that it's based on lies, but it will further buttress the notion that the city's playing games in the litigation."
Mark Muschenheim, the attorney who is arguing the case on behalf of the city, said in an emailed statement: "The petitioners have been unable to refute the key legal issues in the case. Their lawsuit was brought after the statute of limitations had expired. Even if it weren't filed too late, the bike path was clearly a reasonable and rational response by the city to community concerns, the sole legal standard for this case. In addition to enhancing Brooklyn's bike lane network, the installation of the bike path successfully addressed excessive speeding on Prospect Park West, as well as the high numbers of cyclists riding on the Prospect Park West sidewalks. The plan was revised several times with the input of the local community -- and it was, from the beginning, a permanent project to address these concerns."
The city also included in its email an affidavit from Joshua Benson, the director of the NYC DOT's bicycle and pedestrian programs. In it Benson said he attended an April 2010 Community Board 6 meeting and that "I distinctly recall one of the representatives stating that the PPW Project would be a trial project, and I immediately corrected this publicly by stating that the PPW Project was not a trial project, but that after its installation it would be monitored with adjustments made as deemed appropriate. In fact, I do not recall anyone at DOT stating that the PPW Project was a trial or pilot project, unlike other DOT projects that are so identified."
On his way to the elevator, Walden asked a city attorney if Lander was going to be in court on July 20th -- "because if he's not, I want to know because we're going to subpoena him. "
TN MOVING STORIES: AAA To Launch Fast-Charging Trucks For EVs, NRDC Threatens Rail Companies With Pollution Suit, and the End of NYC's Bike War?
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
A Wall Street Journal opinion piece says New York City's bike war is over. "Look all around you. The bikes have won, and it's not a terrible thing."
AAA is launching fast-charging trucks to juice up stranded electric vehicles. (Los Angeles Times)
Another departure at San Francisco's Muni leaves a leadership vacuum. (San Francisco Examiner)
San Francisco taxi drivers protest regulation and credit card charges. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Transportation Alternatives and the New York Daily News took a bogus parking placard (complete with the seal of Bulgaria) on a test drive to see if their car would get tickets. It didn't. (NY Daily News)
The NRDC threatened two railroad companies with a pollution lawsuit. (AP)
One Canadian columnist says it's time to charge the real cost of parking. (Toronto Star)
A number of Boston bus operators were hired despite checkered driving records that include multiple suspensions, numerous moving violations and repeated accidents in which they were found to be at fault. (Boston Herald)
The VP of the US High Speed Rail Association is on board with Congressman Mica's Northeast Corridor privatization plan. (The Hill)
Some airlines are switching from paper to iPads in the cockpit to cut down on weight -- and therefore fuel costs. (Good)
TN MOVING STORIES: Feds Investigate Possible Oil Market Manipulation -- Taxi Driver Group Supports Outer Borough Plan -- Chinese Build Kenyan "Superhighway"
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission has launched a probe into whether companies, refineries, and/or traders have manipulated crude oil markets. (Wall Street Journal)
A group representing thousands of New York City taxi drivers threw its support behind legislation that would allow livery cabs to pick up street hails -- despite its intention to attend a protest of the plan Monday. (WNYC)
Chinese companies are building a 'superhighway' -- a road that's 16 lanes across in some places -- in Kenya. (NPR)
Can biofuels making flying clean and cheap? (Good)
Rhode Island's transit agency head says he has to cut bus service 10% because of an expected budget deficit. (Boston Globe)
The United Arab Emirates decided to build the world's most sustainable city...then the financial crisis hit. Whither the Masdar pod-cars? (Marketplace)
Paris to New York in 90 minutes? Paris to Tokyo in three hours? That's the promise of an experimental jet unveiled at the Paris Air Show. (NPR)
The Takeaway follows up on Saudi women agitating for their right to drive.
Grading Intercity Buses
Monday, June 20, 2011
Following a series of deadly intercity bus crashes which have killed 25 people since the start of the year, New York Senator Charles Schumer has proposed an idea that will be familiar to many New Yorkers: letter grades.
In a letter to US Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the Senator wrote that his idea was inspired by NYC Department of Health grades that are prominently displayed in New York City's restaurants. "This simple grading system provides customers with the information they need when choosing where to eat and a similar scheme could be used to bring more transparency to the intercity bus industry."
The idea is that the DOT and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (which regulates the tour bus industry) develop a ratings system that assigns letter grades to operators. Companies would then be required to display the information at both the point of purchase, as well as on the bus. "If bus companies have a poor safety record, passengers should know about it before they purchase a ticket," Schumer said in a written statement.
The FMCSA currently maintains an online safety database, but Schumer said it is "difficult to navigate and the rating system is not easy to understand."
In recent weeks the DOT and the FMCSA have been criticized for not moving fast enough to shut down tour bus operators with dozens of safety violations. Last week Anne Ferro, the head of the FMCSA, told Congress that shutting down unsafe bus companies was a cumbersome process and that her agency needed "stronger authority" to better regulate the industry.
LaHood has not yet commented on the Senator's idea. His office says he'll respond to Schumer "directly."
Street Hails: If NYC Mayor Has His Way, They Wouldn't Be Just For Manhattan Anymore
Monday, June 20, 2011
Legislation introduced in Albany over the weekend would allow New York City residents in the outer boroughs and Upper Manhattan to legally hail a livery cab.
Currently the "street hail" is the sole legal purview of yellow cabs.
The bill would authorize the sale of 30,000 "hail privilege permits" to livery cab operators and permit the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission to sell up to 1,500 new yellow cab medallions at $1,500 each.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has wanted to extend on-street cab pickups to the outer boroughs for some time now, but his earlier plan met with strong resistance from yellow cab drivers and the New York City Council. Yellow cab operators --some of whom paid six figures to purchase a medallion -- are no happier with this iteration of the plan, and protest plis taking ace at City Hall this afternoon. (UPDATE: photo from the protest below.)
WNYC reporter Kathleen Horan was on The Brian Lehrer Show this morning to explain the plan and field questions from listeners. You can hear the segment below, or go to the BL Show page here.
TN MOVING STORIES: NYC Cabbies Protest Outer-Borough Livery Cab Proposal -- Arlington Prepares for Transit Revitalization -- Win The Stanley Cup, Set Transit Ri
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Opinions are mixed over Arlington's Columbia Pike, a planned streetcar corridor. (WAMU)
Mayor Bloomberg's outer borough livery cab street hail plan goes to Albany. (Wall Street Journal)
Meanwhile, NYC cabbies are protesting that plan. (AM NY)
NJ Governor Christie's Energy Master Plan draft "barely mentions transportation," according to a columnist. (Times of Trenton)
Both Illinois senators are pushing opposing agendas over public-private partnerships for transportation. (Chicago Tribune)
Adults can learn to ride bikes, too. (New York Times)
A guest columnist in the New York Daily News -- who lost her husband in a car-on-bike collision -- writes that the city's bike lanes are "vital and corrective" and will save lives.
According to one journalist, entertainment on the NYC subway is "a combination of 'America's Got Talent,' 'The Gong Show', and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'" (NY Daily News)
Win the Stanley Cup, set transit ridership records. (WCVB - Boston)
Snapshot | A Plastic Pink Flamingo on the UWS
Friday, June 17, 2011
A pink flamingo lawn ornament in the flower box of a West 71st Street apartment building added some suburban flourishes to the Upper West Side on Friday morning.
TN MOVING STORIES: Racial Profiling At Newark Liberty Airport -- Digital Displays Coming to More NYC Subway Cars
Friday, June 17, 2011
Racial profiling apparently became common practice at Newark Airport, and now lawmakers want to know why. (Star-Ledger)
The NYC MTA says East Side Select Bus Service increased ridership by 30%. (DNA Info)
Budget woes and high gas prices are causing Illinois to cut back school bus service. (Chicago Tribune)
New York may bring automated station announcements and digital displays to 1,700 more subway cars. (New York Times)
Toyota says full vehicle production will return to North America in September -- faster than expected. (Bloomberg)
Women in Saudi Arabia are agitating for the right to drive. (The Takeaway)
A New York Daily News op-ed says that NYC DOT commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan killed a City Council plan to put livery cab stands in outer boroughs.
Parking a pickup truck overnight in Coral Gables, Florida -- even in a driveway -- could cost residents a $100 ticket. (USA Today)
Taxi data could be mined to solve public transit problems. (The Urbanophile)
Plans for a High Line-style park are moving ahead in Chicago. (Red Eye Chicago)
NYC Court Filing: PPW Bike Lane Is in the Right Place
Thursday, June 16, 2011
New York City is saying that when it came to putting a bike lane in Park Slope, it couldn't have located the Prospect Park West bike lane anywhere else.
In court papers filed in response to a lawsuit that seeks to remove the bike lane, New York provides the first substantial look at its defense. The suit was filed by Neighbors for Better Bike Lanes/Seniors for Safety (NBBL) earlier this year.
The 39-page document (see end of post) lays out the city's case along these lines: we located the PPW lane in the best location, in accordance with accepted industry guidelines; we had the right to do so, because street management and bike lanes are our purview; our analysis was and is sound; and anyway the statute of limitations has expired. From the filing:
On why the city located the lane on Prospect Park West:
p. 7: "While 8th Avenue has two northbound traffic lanes that bicyclists can ride on, it has numerous intersections that increase the potential for conflicts and crashes among motorists and bicyclists, thereby decreasing the desirability and use by bicyclists. Moreover, 8th Avenue does not connect directly with Prospect Park entrances, meaning a more circuitous route to and from Prospect Park would be required....DOT also considered and rejected Park Drive, a roadway located within Prospect Park. Park Drive does not provide the connectivity to the street network that a PPW bike path would (since bicyclists could only access Park Drive in three locations), and it is also an indirect (and thus inconvenient) route for local trips. Moreover, Park Drive's two traffic lanes are used by motor vehicles at certain times, and there is insufficient space to add an unprotected bike lane going against the flow of traffic while at the same time providing for the existing walking/running lane, bike lane and two traffic lanes."
On NBBL's contention that the city didn't accurately analyze crash data:
p. 13: "Petitioners, and their purported expert, accountant Eric Fox, take issue with DOT's use of three-year averages in its crash analysis. ..
Petitioners, however, fail to square their assertions with the accepted industry practice of using three years' worth of data when performing before and after crash comparisons....For this reason, DOT typically uses three years of before-crash data when evaluating traffic improvements (and indeed, used three-year data in April 2009 when it originally presented the PPW Project plan to the Community Board)...And even if there were any validity to petitioners' criticisms of DOT's use of three-year-average data, the most relevant indicator -- crashes involving injuries -- dropped by 50 percent between 2009 and 2010, and dropped by 33 percent in the same period if "side street" crashes are omitted."
On why NBBL's case is just too late:
p. 18, p. 2: "In an apparent effort to skirt the statute of limitations, petitioners attempt to characterize the PPW Project as 'experimental' or as a 'trial'...Petitioners, two unincorporated associations led by individuals who live on PPW, commenced this proceeding in March 2011, months after the expiration of the Article 78 statute of limitations (which began to run at the latest when the PPW Project was installed). Consequently, petitioners' claims relating to the PPW Project are time-barred."
The next court date in the case is scheduled for next Wednesday, June 22nd.
You can read the city's filing below.
Respondents' Memorandum of Law in Opposition to the Petition
TN MOVING STORIES: SF Muni Head Is Out, DC Metro Makes Progress, And Commuter Race: Ferry Vs. Bike Vs. Subway
Thursday, June 16, 2011
The head of San Francisco's Municipal Transit Agency is leaving. (San Francisco Chronicle)
DC's Metro has made some progress, say federal lawmakers. (WAMU)
While the US debates about whether to buy Canadian crude oil, that country already has another buyer: China. (Marketplace)
The former vice chair of General Motors says the US auto industry was suffering long before the economic downturn; listen to the conversation on The Takeaway below.
China's fast trains are going to run slower. (New York Times)
The Guardian takes up the thorny issue of whether bicycling in a skirt is hazardous.
The Brussels subway sound system has become the latest front in the linguistic fight between Dutch speakers and Francophones that has kept Belgium without a government for more than a year. (AP)
Gothamist takes the new East River Ferry out for a spin, and tests that commute against the subway and biking. Guess who wins?


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Tom Cruise out, Sam Worthington in as 'The Tourist'
Sam Worthington is a busy man. He just got his big break in "Terminator: Salvation" and will appear this December in James Cameron's "Avatar." Plus, he's already completed production on a remake of "Clash of the Titans" and he's jumped on board a remake of "The Candidate." Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, he's avoiding any semblance of a break by joining Charlize Theron in "The Tourist."
A remake of a 2005 French thriller (yes, that makes three remakes of some kind for Worthington), "The Tourist" will find the up and coming Aussie playing an American vacationing in Europe who is manipulated by a female Interpol agent (Theron). Tom Cruise was originally expected to play the male lead before dropping out to star in James Mangold's untitled romantic comedy at Fox. Bharat Nalluri ("Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day") will direct from a screenplay by Julian Fellowes ("Gosford Park") and Jeffrey Nachmanoff ("The Day After Tomorrow.")
Theron, much to her credit, hasn't been sitting on the sidelines either. She'll be seen in the indie drama "The Burning Plain" in September and alongside Viggo Mortensen in the long-awaited adaptation of "The Road" in October. Last week it was also announced she's developing a big screen version of Christopher Buckley's novel "Florence of Arabia" as a potential starring vehicle.
Production on "The Tourist" should begin sometime this January.


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Posts for October, 2011
New website for select mining committee
A new Senate select committee on mining has established a website devoted to metallic mining in Wisconsin.
The site includes a presentation on mining by the Department of Natural Resources and an interview with the chairman of the committee, Sen. Neal Kedzie (R-Elkhorn) and Sen. Robert Jauch (D-Poplar) on the Wisconsin Public Television program, "Hear and Now."
State parks in Door County could open for the weekend
State officials will decide Wednesday whether they will be able to fully re-open state parks in Door County for the weekend after a massive windstorm hit the area last week.
The wind storm on Thursday toppled trees on roads and building and knocked out power. Electricity wasn't restored at Peninsula State Park until Monday afternoon.
State Parks Director Dan Schuller said Department of Natural Resources officials will decide by Wednesday at noon whether to re-open all state parks in the county for the weekend. By making a decision then, officials hope they are giving people with reserved campsites time to make plans. »Read Full Blog Post
State parks in Door County to open Thursday
All state parks in Door County will open on Thursday at 8 a.m. after a windstorm last week knocked down trees and cut power, forcing officials to close the parks.
The Department of Natural Resources had hoped to open the parks by the weekend, but State Parks Director Dan Schuller said enough progress is being made to ensure an earlier opening.
In a statement, the DNR Peninsula, Potawatomi, Newport and Whitefish Dunes will all reopen. Some trails at Potawatomi will remain closed for more cleanup. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
EPA approves tribe's bid to set water standards
Federal regulators have approved a northern Wisconsin Indian tribe's request to regulate water quality, a move that could influence the construction of an iron ore mine near Hurley.
The Bad River band of Lake Superior Chippewa said Wednesday that the Environmental Protection Agency had approved its application to set standards for water quality on tribal waters.
The approval also allows the tribe to impose limits on water uses on others outside the reservation who live upstream. »Read Full Blog Post(64)
Court rules homeowners responsible for improper sewer connection missed by city inspector
Municipal plumbing inspectors can breathe a sigh of relief Thursday after a state Court of Appeals ruled communities do not have to pay homeowners' costs of correcting private sewer misconnections overlooked by inspectors.
A West Bend couple lived in their home for nine years before a city official notified them in 2008 that their private sanitary sewer lateral was discharging to a storm sewer instead of the public sanitary sewer main beneath the street.
An investigation determined that a private plumber connected the lateral to the wrong sewer when the Fairview Drive home was built in 1999. »Read Full Blog Post(42)
Fire danger high in northwest Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has raised the fire danger rating in three counties in northwestern Wisconsin to "very high" after crews battled an 11-acre fire on Sunday in a remote area near the St. Croix River.
The alert applies to Polk, Burnett and Washburn counties and will remain in effect until rain and weather conditions lower the fire risk.
The fire, north of Grantsburg a few yards from the St. Croix River, was extinguished on Sunday. Minnesota crews helped with fire control, including the use of a helicopter carrying buckets of water, said Jim Bishop, a Wisconsin DNR spokesman in Spooner. »Read Full Blog Post
New cell phone app developed at UW helps identify birds
Showerhead giveaway at State Fair Park
It will be first-come, first-served a free, high-efficiency showerhead Friday and Saturday at State Fair Park.
The first 500 Milwaukee County residents who drop off unwanted household hazardous waste at the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District's collection will get a showerhead that uses 1.5 gallons of water per minute.
Participants should enter Fair Park at Gate 8 off S. 76th St. Collection hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Oct. 14, and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Oct. 15. »Read Full Blog Post(16)
Delafield couple fined for damaging Upper Nashotah Lake and shoreline
A Waukesha County Circuit Court judge has ordered Michael and Susanne Michels of Delafield to pay $99,999 in fines and court costs, and buy $5,000 worth of native plants for their shoreline property on Upper Nashotah Lake, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said Thursday.
The couple did not have state permits when they began building a stone wall in August 2009, damaging more than 10,000 square feet of lake shore and bed, Van Hollen said in a statement. They also dumped 70 cubic yards of sand on the lake bed without a permit in August and September of 2009.
The work was done without adequate erosion control measures to protect the lake's water quality, according to Van Hollen. »Read Full Blog Post(53)
Two whooping cranes killed in Louisiana
Authorities are reporting the sixth and seventh shooting deaths of whooping cranes in 2011. The latest cases are in Louisiana and a 13-year-old boy and 16-year-old boy have been implicated in the case.
A post by James B. French Jr. of the U.S. Geological Survey noted that cranes have distinct personalities - in this case, one was shy but had blossomed into a "rascal" and the other, a one-time bully, had learned to get along with his peers.
The two chicks were released in Louisiana from a federal rearing facility in Maryland last winter. (6)
New York offers ballast compromise, shipping advocates balk
The state of New York does not appear to be bowing to pressure from a group of Great Lakes governors, including Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, to back off on its plan to adopt the region's toughest ballast discharge laws for overseas ships visiting the Great Lakes.
All overseas vessels sailing into the Great Lakes must pass through New York state waters, and in 2013 New York had planned to begin requiring ships to install water treatment systems in their vessel-steadying ballast tanks in order to kill unwanted hitchhikers making their way into the lakes from ports around the globe.
This did not sit well with Walker and fellow governors Mitch Daniels of Indiana and John Kasich of Ohio, who in September sent a letter to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo asking him to back off on the law. They fear it could harm overseas traffic, a sector of cargo flow that in recent years has accounted for less than 10 percent of the tonnage that moves on the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Butterfly proposed for federal protection
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday after that a rare butterfly, the Poweshiek skipperling, is a candidate for protection under the federal Endangered Species Act.
Poweshiek skipperling is a small butterfly that inhabits remnants of native prairies in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin, and prairie fens in Michigan.
In Wisconsin, the butterfly is listed on the state endangered species list. »Read Full Blog Post(16)
Walker tells Senate to get going on mining
Gov. Scott Walker prodded the Republican-controlled state Senate to take up mining legislation on Thursday in his weekly radio address, saying that Wisconsin "should not have to wait for many months for action."
Walker commended the Assembly for holding a hearing today in Hurley on mining, with members of that house saying this week that they will move forward on drafting legislation that would give mine developers more regulatory certainty.
"I believe they recognize and are ready to address that the current process is unreasonable and is costing our state thousands of good-paying jobs," Walker said, referring to the Assembly. »Read Full Blog Post(259)
Group won't disclose backing
A group going by the name, Not Mine, which recently organized to oppose potential changes in mining legislation in Wisconsin, will not disclose who is funding the organization.
Not Mine's web site describes the group this way:
"We are a collection of groups and individuals who are united in opposition against the re-writing of Wisconsin's environmental regulations that will loosen rules for mining and ultimately threaten the environment." »Read Full Blog Post(10)
Poll says public doesn't support rollback on mining regulations
The latest Wisconsin Policy Research Institute poll shows that the public doesn't want changes in state mining laws if it means easing back on environmental regulations.
Thirty-seven percent of the people in the poll believed that regulations should be streamlined, but 51% also said that environmental regulations should not be weakened.
The poll shows that Democrats and independents express more protective environmental views when it comes to mining. »Read Full Blog Post(48)


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Police looking for man who started Fairview fire
State police are looking for a man who possibly started a fire at an abandoned McKean Township property.
Firefighters were called to a working fire at 6527 Sterrettania Road at 11:14 a.m. Police described the structure as a barn or shed.
McKean, West Ridge, Perry Hi-Way, West Lake and Fairview fire departments all responded to the call to knock down the fire.
Police described the unknown person who could have started the fire as a man with curly hair.
Anyone with information on the fire is asked to contact state police in Girard at 774-9611.


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"Bill W.," a documentary about the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, is showing at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Landmark Downer Theatre, 2589 N. Downer Ave.
Unlike some such movies, "Bill W." is a warts-and-all portrait of William G. Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, using interviews, recreations and archival footage to show Wilson's personal battles, leading to the formation of the influential organization that he was never able to join himself. »Read Full Article
Aaron loved performing and finding students' style
On the occasion of his 87th birthday, Joe Aaron was asked what songs he heard when he thought of himself playing.
Old standards, he said. "Body and Soul." "Stardust." Gershwin tunes. »Read Full Article
Scottish novelist Iain Banks has died
When Scottish novelist Iain Banks announced in April that he had an inoperable form of cancer, his large online following responded with affection and dismay.
"There can have been few novelists of recent years who were more aware of what their readers thought of their books; there is a frequent sense in his novels of an author teasing, testing and replying to a readership with which he was pretty familiar," wrote The Guardian's John Mullan in his obituary piece on Banks, who died Sunday at age 59. »Read Full Blog Post
Festivals and free concerts: June 9-15
Locust Street Festival of Music & Art: 11 a.m.-8 p.m., on Locust St. between Humboldt and Holton, www.locust-street.com. »Read Full Article
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No one needs a time machine to travel to the past in the Milwaukee area next weekend — only a car. »Read Full Article


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