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...vibrant political environment a short T ride away from University Hall. But when break rolls around, how do students get home? Most take the T to Logan and fly home. Even this simple, everyday act involves two major state-level organizations: the Mass. Bay Transport Authority (MBTA) and MassPort. Therefore, who runs these departments and how their programs are executed makes a huge difference in students’ lives...
...hide the fact that she's the fourth wife of her husband, Chuck Hunt. She got embroiled in a nasty fight with two Turnpike Authority board members she tried to fire for voting against a toll increase. She was tainted by a patronage scandal at her former employer, Massport and was put on the spot for lax oversight when two of the Sept. 11 terrorists sailed through Logan Airport security. And when the economy went south last year it took the state budget with it, leaving her with a huge shortfall...
...entire civil infrastructure of your city—roads, airports, train stations, dams, aqueducts, reservoirs, courthouses, schools, hospitals, electrical transmission lines, garbage dumps, sewer treatment plants—was built before 1960, with the vast majority built in the 1930s. To take just one local example, according to Massport, Logan Airport was built in 1923 and expanded to its current four-runway configuration in the 50s. Since then there have been many improvements to the airport, but most involve access to the airport and its terminals, not runway construction, which is the primary limiting factor of airport traffic. Unfortunately...
...security measures currently in place at Logan go beyond the dozen Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requirements announced last Wednesday. According to a press release issued this weekend, Logan’s initiatives are the recommendations of a task force of representatives from Massport, the Mass. State Police, the FBI, the FAA, the U.S. Marshal’s Office and the U.S. Secret Service...
...press conference at the State House at 4:30 yesterday afternoon, acting Mass. Gov. Jane Swift said that Massport will try to move beyond the new FAA regulations...