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Primary runoff for S.C. state rep between former couple Shirley Hinson & Jimmy Hinson, whose relationship involved jail time and a restraining order...
...Sanderson (I) def Butera, 14-12; 126--Picarsic (H) def A. Wollner, 8-3; 134--D. DeNunzio (H) def #3 D. Hinson, 2-1 (SD); 142--#6 C. Sanderson (I) def. Kiler, 7-4; 150--D. Maldonado (I) def. Griesemer, 10-4, 158--Killar (H) def B. Schwab...
...more than 25%. "The money is collected for aviation, and it should be spent for aviation, not to make the deficit look smaller," says Tim Neale, spokesman for the Air Transport Association. Representative William Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat, was stunned earlier this year when FAA Administrator David Hinson and Transportation Secretary Federico Pena told him the trust fund was going broke. Jefferson was looking for money to expand the New Orleans airport. "The bottom line is that there isn't a fund for forward-looking capital projects to provide safety and security equipment for our airports," Jefferson told Time. Soon...
...answer may have a lot to do with staffing changes within the agency. While Hinson receives plaudits for trying to buck the bureaucracy--for instance, by pushing last year to regulate commuter airlines in the same way as larger commercial airlines--reviews are mixed about Pena, who has been criticized for putting politics over safety, and about Broderick. In his nearly 20 years at the FAA, Broderick was a tough, respected administrator, and his supporters believe he is being sacrificed on the altar of public relations. But others claim that he could be unyielding and slow to acknowledge problems...
...crash has shed light on some classic failures in the FAA's handling of low-cost carriers. For starters, after the ValuJet tragedy, Hinson and Pena trumpeted the airline's safety record--statements that began to seem increasingly surreal as inspection reports started popping up, showing ValuJet had committed enough infractions to merit grounding months ago. A number of FAA inspectors told TIME they sent regional offices and headquarters critical reports that were ignored. There is talk of a criminal investigation. And though the agency was concerned enough about ValuJet earlier this year to run a special review...