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D’Iberville council considers restaurant tax
City Manager Michael Janus said the new tax is similar to one Ocean Springs adopted. The money generated would build a new public safety center, which Janus says is sorely needed. New roads planned by the Mississippi Department of Transportation …
Read More..>>At airports, keep taking shoes off — for now
… the Transportation Security Administration doesn’t have plans to end the shoe-removal requirement, which was implemented after Richard Reid tried but failed to ignite a shoe bomb on a U.S.-bound trans-Atlantic jetliner in 2001. Napolitano spoke …
Read More..>>Rev. Sharpton’s LA leader wants apology for teacher …
But one wasn’t coming Wednesday when we talked to CFT president Marty Hittelman. Let’s back up a bit. The Rev. K.W. Tulloss, president of the LA chapter of the National Action Network, is referring to this passage from the Jan. 5 edition of “Inside …
Read More..>>Workers breaking up boulder above Colo.’s I-70
In this Monday, March 8, 2010 photo released by the Colorado Department of Transportation, a portion of a 17-mile stretch of Interstate 70, which has been closed after a rock slide, is shown in Glenwood Springs, Colo. The slide struck around midnight …
Read More..>>Feds to probe runaway Prius in Calif.
EL CAJON, California (AP) — Federal officials are sending two investigators to California to determine what caused a Toyota Prius to race out of control on a San Diego-area freeway. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Transportation said …
Read More..>>Tenn. Department of Transportation official to lead transit group
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ‘” A Tennessee Department of Transportation official has been selected to lead a group that’s been pushing for an overhaul of mass transit in Middle Tennessee. The Transit Alliance of Middle Tennessee announced Tuesday that Ed Cole, TDOT’s environment and planning chief, will
Read More..>>Continental cancellations
Transportation Department said airlines can avoid fines by doing a better … delays are rare, and mostly caused by an outdated air traffic control system that the government has failed to upgrade. Airline industry officials say they should decide …
Read More..>>Fatal red line crash cost Metro $25.5 million
WASHINGTON ‘” Metro officials estimate that last year’s fatal red line crash cost the transit agency $25.5 million. The Washington Examiner reports … detailed in a memo submitted to the National Transportation Safety Board. NTSB officials asked …
Read More..>>Chevron to shed 2,000 jobs, sell some assets
The job cuts represent almost 12 percent of its 17,000 workers in the so-called downstream part of its business and just over 3 percent of its overall work force. Executives of the second-largest U.S. oil producer are still deciding where and when …
Read More..>>US Airways fined over pricing on Web site
Mar 08, 2010 (The Philadelphia Inquirer – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) — US Airways Group Inc. was fined $40,000 today by the U.S. Department of Transportation for not disclosing full ticket prices on its Web site. The …
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