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...Suddenly I was cool. In Los Angeles these days, going on strike is about the grooviest thing you can do short of wearing a hip-hoppy knit winter cap while lifting weights at Crunch next to Tobey Maguire. L.A.'s bus and rail operators have been on strike for about three weeks now in protest over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's plan to eliminate some work rules and reduce overtime pay. The actors' unions recently set a record with the longest strike in Hollywood history, over pay for commercials. And already the Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television...
...anticipated actors' and writers' strike will shut down all production, leaving 272,000 workers unemployed if the various factions of the entertainment industry don't avert the work stoppage between now and mid-2001, when contracts expire. I've realized that at the moment, 4,400 bus and rail operators are going without pay and 450,000 weekday public transportation users are struggling to get to work. So now I'm thinking that striking isn't actually cool at all - not even in Los Angeles, where follow-the-leader is everyone's favorite party game. So even though the writers...
...budget surplus over the next 10 years--$171 billion--to reducing America's reliance on oil and gas (and to clean up the environment). His program includes tax breaks to companies that use renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, federal investments in light rail systems and high-speed trains, grants to small businesses to develop new energy-efficient technologies and tax breaks to families that purchase energy-saving cars, homes and appliances. Gore opposes drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
Despite positioning themselves as men of "the people," Bush and Gore are ignoring the poor in favor of the shoppers at the suburban strip malls where they work and the commuters at the rail station where they make change. Gore has at least been to some of these places, on his marathon Labor Day tour, but no one since President Clinton took his poverty tour last year has focused on them. Since then, Evelyn Nieves recently wrote in the New York Times, "the poor have coped alone...
...fare hike, which also affects bus, commuter rail and ferry passengers, will mean an extra $46 million in operating revenue annually, according to MBTA estimates. The Authority says the money will be spent on natural gas-powered buses, new bus routes and various other T projects...