There are six weeks remaining in the current LIRR contract deadline before railroad laborers may go on strike. According to officials from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the LIRR …
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By Stapha Charleme
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6/18/14
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Time goes by quickly. We’re well into April, and there seems to be so much to do and so little time to do it. Except when you’re Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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4/17/14
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Journalism lost one of its greats last week. Jonathan Schell, a best-selling nonfiction author, columnist and correspondent for The New Yorker, Newsday and The Nation, died . . .
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By Scott Brinton
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4/3/14
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Long Islanders have a lot to be happy about these days. Not only is this wretched winter coming to an end, but our average proposed school-tax hike is the lowest it has been in more than four decades.
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3/27/14
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President Barack Obama has appointed a second board of mediators to intervene in a longstanding contract impasse between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its Long Island Rail Road …
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By Emily Webb
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3/25/14
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority officially asked President Barack Obama to appoint a second Presidential Emergency Board on March 5 in resolving its longstanding contract impasse with Long …
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By Emily Webb
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3/6/14
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Negotiations between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Long Island Rail Road unions to avoid a labor strike later this month ended early on Feb. 27 with no resolution, but with new …
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By Emily Webb
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3/4/14
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After a dozen members of Congress from New York urged the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to reconsider its contractual demands for a three-year wage freeze on Long Island Rail Road workers, …
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By Emily Webb
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2/25/14
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A dozen members of Congress from New York, three from Long Island, have urged the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to reconsider its contractual demands for a three-year wage freeze or …
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By Emily Webb
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2/19/14
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One thing was clear after President Obama’s not-so-interesting fifth State of the Union address: He is gearing up to borrow and take more from working- and middle-class people.
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2/6/14
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