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However, all of the positive legislation and momentum will be pushed backward if several proposed changes to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority take place. Last week, officials of the MBTA released budgeting information that included major cuts to its subway services, including ending weekday commuter rail service after 7 p.m., removing customer service personnel from all stations, and cutting enough overall service from its bus lines and rail systems to generate a loss of over 40 million riders annually...
Boston has always been one of the pioneers of public transportation, including being the first American city to implement an underground subway system, and, at a time when easing the burden we put on the environment is a major priority, it is an inopportune moment to cut back on service. Many major cities today still lack robust public transportation, and to benefit its citizens and lower energy usage we need to increase, rather than curtail, mass-transit programs. It is understandable that in these tough economic times money has to come from somewhere, but alternative sources do exist. A legislative...
...what he said was what I thought, then it is very shocking and not something that I would expect or want coming out of a chaplain at any major American university,” he said...
...over so-called “Cold War” systems, the administration will cancel further procurement of the world’s best fighter aircraft, end production of its most versatile cargo plane, do away with the flagship military communications satellite program for the next decade, scrap several major missile-defense projects and a search and rescue helicopter project, and significantly delay or cancel many U.S. Navy shipbuilding programs...
...problem? Well, for one thing, Harvard students are unhappy. Student satisfaction ranks near the bottom of a group of elite colleges, and a lack of social life is identified as one of the major problems. A close friend—atypical at Harvard in that she has always been popular and is thus possibly more affected by the lack of social interactions—recently told me that she viewed her university experience as a reason to “be strong and just get through time...