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...called shortage occupations. About 100 workers have participated since the scheme began in 1990. He also contends that federal employees ride free on Washington's subway while everyone else pays. Actually, the Metro system has deals with some public and private employers to subsidize workers' use of rapid transit. A majority of the roughly 50,000 riders who participate work in private enterprise...
Investigators are now zeroing in on the state monopolies for highway construction, petrochemicals, television broadcasting, public transit, water and electricity, where large budgets are tempting targets for graft. Though no one has precise numbers, one study puts the rip-off at $11 billion a year over the past dozen years, a figure coincidentally comparable to Italy's annual public deficit...
Kontoff, who was joined in yesterday's demonstration by a handful of supporters, said he was fired by the Transit Retailing Partnership, Inc., which owns Out-of-Town-News, for posting political messages on his pushcart in the Back Bay T station...
This November, the Transit Retail Partnership, which handles the contractors of the vending space at Back Bay, began sending notices to Kontoff to remove the posters and sticker from his bagel cart. He was also warned that he could not use a toaster for his bagels since it might blow a fuse at the T station...
After repeated notices, Kontoff was told that New Year's Day would be his last day as a bagel vendor. According to MBTA spokesperson Jim R. Ball, Kontoff's lease was terminated by the Transit Retail Partnership for violating the terms of his lease...