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Fenway Center plans satisfy concerned DOT board member	24.5.2013	Boston Globe: Massachusetts
Fenway Center plans satisfy concerned DOT board member
Independence Pass to open for season	23.5.2013	Headlines: All Headlines
ASPEN, Colo.—Barring any last-minute complications, Independence Pass is opening to traffic for the season.
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Pritzker makes strong showing in Senate confirmation hearing	23.5.2013	Chicago Tribune: Business
Pritzker makes strong showing in Senate confirmation hearing
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Summer Air-Travel Survival Guide	23.5.2013	Wall St. Journal: Asia
Infrequent travelers will be in for plenty of surprises over the next three months and ought to prepare to avoid frustration.
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The Edge: The Politics of Disaster Aid	22.5.2013	Yahoo: Politics
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The Politics of Disaster Aid	22.5.2013	Yahoo: Politics
IN THE NEWS: IRS official takes Fifth at hearing … Friend of Boston bomb suspect killed during questioning … Vote on transportation secretary today … Weiner enters NYC mayor race … How indie-rocker-turned-congressman hopes to impact immigrationTHE TAKE
How She Leads: Julian Potter, San Francisco International Airport	22.5.2013	Business Operations \| GreenBiz.com
Meet the chief of staff who helped make San Francisco International Airport a leader in sustainability.
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With some exceptions, DFL promised, DFL delivered during 2013 legislative session	22.5.2013	Twincities.com: News
With control of the governorship and the Legislature for the first time in a generation, DFLers this year promised to erase a budget shortfall, restore fiscal stability and raise taxes on the top earners to improve schools and hold down property taxes.
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Minnesota transit advocates lament lost opportunities at Capitol	21.5.2013	MinnPost
A half-cent sales tax increase in the metro area to fund bus and rail transit didn't get through the Legislaturethis year, leaving transit advocates frustrated. Barb Thoman, executive director of Transit for Livable Communities, said in a statement: "Minnesota had a chance to make a decisive move on transportation but decided not to take it. Instead of moving sensibly to expand our transit system, we’re stalled. No increase in local bus, minimal progress on rail. This is a huge disappointment, especially to all the people who need more affordable options for getting to work and school, and for the health and economic vitality of our region. Minnesota is not a national leader today." The Transit for a Stronger Economy coalition had pushed for the regional transit tax increase, as well as a higher gas tax, which also failed to pass. The group said in a statement: "The new law keeps the region and state far behind competing regions that invest far more in transit." ...
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Mass. to switch to electronic Tobin Bridge tolls	21.5.2013	Boston Globe: Massachusetts
Mass. to switch to electronic Tobin Bridge tolls
CDOT takes comment on plans to widen I-70 east of Denver Coliseum	21.5.2013	Denver Post: News: Local
CDOT takes comment on plans to widen I-70 east of Denver Coliseum
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Mass. transportation secretary: People are going to need to pick up E-ZPasses	21.5.2013	Boston Globe: Massachusetts
Mass. transportation secretary: People are going to need to pick up E-ZPasses
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Poll: Is it right or wrong to ban gun-control ads on buses?	21.5.2013	Seattle Times: Top stories
Community Transit, the primary transit organization in Snohomish County, has said no to running ads from a gun-control group. The transit organization, however, says the policy isn’t aimed at the group, Washington Cease Fire. Community Transit’s board adopted the new policy May 2, saying
Both DFLers and Republicans will go home happy after session is over	20.5.2013	MinnPost
While the 2013 Minnesota Legislature still has unfinished work, it appears that both DFLers and Republicans will go home happy. DFLers – in full control of state government for the first time since 1990 – will be able to boast of a long list of accomplishments that should satisfy their liberal base and perhaps appeal to folks in the political center. Republicans will see some of these same accomplishments as potent political issues that they can use in next year’s gubernatorial and Minnesota House races, particularly in swing districts in suburban and ex-urban areas. As usual, the final weekend of the session was long and often unruly, as the two houses struggled to complete their work, including final passage of the nine spending and tax bills that will constitute the state’s budget for the next two years. They must complete that work by midnight Monday. Curiously, the House DFL leadership spent many hours over the weekend working on a bill that would enable two politically powerful ...
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How clean is the air we breathe in cities?	20.5.2013	THE CITY FIX
More and more cities worldwide are grappling with the ever-increasing menace of air pollution — especially in India, which contains some of the most polluted cities in the world. Rapid economic growth in developing countries and increased individual wealth is ...
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Officials warn of commuter chaos from Connecticut derailment	20.5.2013	Chicago Tribune: Nation
Officials warn of commuter chaos from Connecticut derailment
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Officials warn of commuter chaos from Connecticut derailment	20.5.2013	Yahoo: US National
By Richard Weizel BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut (Reuters) - Thousands of Connecticut commuters should brace for travel chaos on Monday as Metro-North workers repair damage on the United States' busiest rail line caused by the collision of two trains, officials warned on Sunday. Lengthy detours and hours of traffic backups were likely as many daily train commuters take to the road, officials said. ...
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Snohomish transit organization rejects anti-gun ad	19.5.2013	AP Washington
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) -- The main transit organization in Snohomish County is declining to run advertisements from a statewide gun control group on public buses....
Gun-control group putting ads on Metro Transit buses	18.5.2013	Seattle Times: Politics
A state gun-control group is putting advertisements inside and outside of dozens of King County Metro Transit buses, urging residents to “think twice about having a gun in your home.” But the ads, paid for by Washington Ceasefire, were rejected by transit agencies in Snohomish and Pierce
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A preview of things to come: Republicans smack Rick Nolan on Keystone	17.5.2013	MinnPost
WASHINGTON — The House Transportation Committee voted Thursday to send a Keystone XL pipeline authorization bill to the floor, likely reviving, for the first time this session, one of the biggest partisan policy battles of the last two years. The Republican-backed bill would fast-track the oil pipeline project by taking the permitting process out of the Obama administration’s hands , potentially unhinging it from a State Department environmental impact assessment that has delayed the project. Transportation Committee Democrats warned that in bypassing the permitting process, the bill would remove important environmental safeguards, so most of them, including Minnesota Rep. Rick Nolan, voted against the bill. The National Republican Congressional Committee called hypocrisy, releasing a short video showing Nolan telling constituents he supports the pipeline. “Lying to constituents?” an NRCC spokeswoman said in a statement. “That’s not Minnesota nice.” Nolan said in a statement that he does ...
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