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...transportation policy, Mass. Governor Mitt Romney’s priorities are only too clear. As part of the 1990 legal agreement to begin the Big Dig highway project, Massachusetts promised to fund a number of desperately needed public transportation projects in order to ameliorate the increased pollution and traffic that the new highway would generate. But the Romney administration has consistently downsized, delayed, or outright terminated most of the projects that were included in the 1990 agreement, choosing instead to divert transportation funds to other expensive highway projects and mass transit extensions that would primarily benefit the Commonwealth?...
...Texas, meanwhile, Governor Rick Perry wasn't taking any chances after the traffic nightmares that the state suffered during Hurricane Rita last year. This week he launched a four-day hurricane preparedness exercise - the largest ever in the state - and announced an expansion of the 211 evacuation hotline to help coastal residents without transportation or with special needs. Emergency responders are playing out preparations for a category 5 storm, with about 100 cities and counties participating. During the exercise, which lasts until Friday, officials in the five hurricane evacuation zones will practice responding to an evacuation call. Part...
...cluding noise, disorder, and traffic around schools, that are not narrowly crime-oriented...
...opposed to the towers or the Pentagon? Paul Greengass: I always wanted the film to be a chronology for 9/11 so that when you sit through this film, you feel insight into the totality of the event. That’s why we’re in the air traffic system and the merchant control systems so that you can see it at eye level and...how, like us, they were blind...and struggled to grasp what was going on. Once I seized on that as my way in, it became a question of the plane. The hijackers...
...determined. They did not just fade away," says the MiTT team chief Major Chuck Markos, whose men were hit with flurries of rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire. "It was significant." The exchanges lasted until shortly before lunch. By mid-day, the district was boarded up, bereft of traffic or life, but quiet. The next morning at about 6 a.m., hostilities started again, with several more hours of fighting before quiet finally returned. By week's end, the scene was tense but trouble free. Cars are back on the street, but many shops remain closed...