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Headlines from the Web

American Airlines Named One of Top 60 Companies for Hispanics by Hispanic Business Magazine for Third Consecutive Year

9/8/2008 11:34:06 AM

Source: CBS 14 Sioux City (KMEG)

Singapore Airlines cuts fuel fee on oil price drop

9/8/2008 11:31:48 AM

Source: Businessweek

Frequent fliers find frills falling

9/8/2008 11:29:46 AM

Source: iStockAnalyst

Southwest goes plastic

9/8/2008 11:28:16 AM

Source: Chicago Tribune

SkyWest Buys Stake In Brazilian Airline

9/8/2008 11:20:10 AM

Source: Aviation Now

AirAsia takes risks with expansion amid downturn

9/8/2008 10:12:09 AM

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune

Britain mops up after storms and floods kill 6

9/8/2008 10:05:14 AM

Source: Boston Globe

JetBlue to auction flights on eBay

9/8/2008 9:55:30 AM

Source: CNN

Coast Guard suspends search for missing pilot

9/8/2008 9:54:28 AM

Source: Businessweek

Airport runway temporarily shut down

9/7/2008 10:49:36 PM

Source: San Antonio Express-News

Blogs

Astroland's Last Day [Sad Party Report]

9/8/2008 11:08:14 AM

Source: Gawker

World's Most Expensive Champagne at $275,000 a Bottle

9/8/2008 10:48:12 AM

Source: Luxist

Transportation Machines of DEATH and DESTRUCTION [Night Note]

9/8/2008 10:43:42 AM

Source: Kotaku

Detroit airport renovates

9/8/2008 10:17:16 AM

Source: Gadling

Plane Answers: Are pilots more likely to divorce?

9/8/2008 10:16:53 AM

Source: Gadling

Latest Articles

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Get over it

What every freshman should know about going to college in Boston
Okay, you survived the college-application process; you filled out the miserable FAFSA forms; you sweated out the wait for acceptance letters; and cut your best financial-aid deal.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  September 02, 2008
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A legal setback for Charlie

Freedom Watch
Free speech has won in the struggle between the MBTA and three MIT undergrads who claim to have uncovered flaws in the T’s electronic fare-collection system.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  August 20, 2008
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Traffic Jammed

This small state should have better transit. So why doesn’t it?
It’s not just the relatively small number of RIPTA users who suffer from the inadequacy of Rhode Island’s transit system.  
By AMY LITTLEFIELD  |  August 20, 2008

Freedom RIDErs

A new civil-rights movement emerges
This article originally appeared in the August 12, 1988 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By SEAN FLYNN  |  August 14, 2008

Crossword: ''The rainbow connection''

Someday you'll find it

By MATT JONES  |  July 30, 2008
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What I learned from Free Fare Friday

Bus stop
Truth be told, I am an elitist asshole who rarely takes the bus.
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  July 23, 2008
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The 11th Annual Muzzle Awards

Silencing free speech
Freedom of expression may be guaranteed by the Constitution. But it’s an idea we have to fight for every day.
By DAN KENNEDY  |  July 05, 2008
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Got sustainability?

Apeiron’s annual festival points the way to different possibilities
Growing numbers of Americans are taking up bicycling and gardening, and perhaps reconsidering the more costly habits of the not-so-distant boom times.
By IAN DONNIS  |  June 04, 2008
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Flying high

Interview: Jonathan Miles’s airport novel
There’s nothing new about the complaint as literature, says author Jonathan Miles.
By CLEA SIMON  |  June 02, 2008
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Mile-high schlub

We recall the 10 things we miss most from the Golden Age of Air Travel
Look your children in the eye, globetrotter, and tell them the truth: the Golden Age of Air Travel is over.
By JAMES PARKER  |  May 21, 2008
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Seven should-be habits of highly effective T-riding people

Keep your hands on the pole and not on your neighbor’s ass, bucko.
One person’s peaceful commute on the T is another person’s journey to the gaping maw of Hell.
By SHARON STEEL  |  May 02, 2008
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A sinking feeling

Leaky MBTA tunnels have been seeping Boston’s groundwater for years. Can a new plan prevent potential catastrophe?
For years, critics have called the MBTA a contributing culprit in the dangerously declining groundwater levels under the Back Bay and other parts of Boston — a problem that threatens to literally destroy much of the city’s architecture
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  April 30, 2008
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Underground art

Reviewing the MBTA’s subterranean aesthetic
Next time a smirking subway conductor cackles wickedly while closing the folding doors in your face, don’t get angry.
By MIKE MILIARD  |  April 30, 2008
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Trouble 'round the bend?

MBTA workers have been without a contract for two years. Arbitration will settle the matter soon, but could stir an angry hornets’ nest for 2010.
Perhaps because it hasn’t exploded into a public shutdown of services (as happened a few years ago in New York), arguably the most important fact about the MBTA has escaped public notice: most of its workers have been without a contract for nearly two years.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  April 30, 2008
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State of hock

If the MBTA wasn't in debt, these items would be at the top of its new wish list.
Kenmore Station looks as if it has just survived an act of God, the Orange Line hasn’t seen a new car since the Reagan administration, and the head of the Transit Police union says there are only five cops riding the rails at any given time.
By JASON NOTTE  |  April 30, 2008
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The trolley Svengali

Why Dan Grabauskas might actually fix the T — if he can keep his job
When the T works, we usually don’t notice. But when it doesn’t, our reaction is swift and severe.
By ADAM REILLY  |  April 30, 2008
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Is the MBTA on track?

In the real world, funding is only an issue; politics is the most persistent problem
As targets for criticism go, it is hard to imagine one more inviting than the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, better known as the MBTA, best known as the T.
By EDITORIAL  |  April 30, 2008
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The T and the Tube

London’s Underground is seething with danger. Boston’s T has cuckoo juice
From time to time, upon discovering that I moved here from my native London, a well-meaning Bostonian will make the conciliatory observation that our two cities are not, after all, so very different.
By JAMES PARKER  |  April 30, 2008
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RIPTA drones thrown under the bus

It’s high time for a better mass transit system
Beautiful! The people responsible for the longstanding mishandling of RIPTA have earned their brownie points, but little else.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  April 23, 2008
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Master of Hub hits

Meet Adam Gaffin, Boston’s reigning Web czar
Greater Boston has witnessed a shocking amount of drama in the new year.
By ADAM REILLY  |  March 05, 2008
Audio

Area Recovers From Tropical Storm Hanna

9/8/2008 7:56:14 AM

Source: WAMU: Local News


Juan Alvarez aims for new trial

9/8/2008 7:49:46 AM

Source: LA Daily News: Local


Boeing Machinists Reject Offer, Strike

9/6/2008 4:09:54 PM

Source: NPR Business Audio


Boeing Workers Strike

9/6/2008 11:23:53 AM

Source: NPR US News


Mother, son injured in car crash

9/5/2008 2:40:05 PM

Source: LA Daily News: Local

Video

Video: Airlines cutting back flights

9/8/2008 11:27:14 AM

Source: MSNBC Video Today Show


Sky5 Update: South Kedzie Avenue Hit-And-Run

9/8/2008 11:10:27 AM

Source: NBC 5 Local Video


One Killed In Overnight Hit-And-Run

9/8/2008 9:24:54 AM

Source: NBC 5 Local Video


Southwest Side SUV Crash Claims One Life

9/8/2008 8:03:05 AM

Source: CBS2 WBBM Top Stories Video


N.J. Police Officer Killed In Crash

9/7/2008 10:32:59 AM

Source: NBC4 NY Video - Top News

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