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Light at the End of the Tunnel?

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Tuesday, December 07, 2004

By MTA’s own calculation, a fare hike won’t be necessary this year. Nevertheless, the agency wants to raise the cost of a ride and increase taxes on some MTA properties, in order to get firmly back in the black.

Baseball Doldrums

Jim Bouton former Yankee Pitcher and author, ball four, and now foul ball Ball Four Wiley, John & Sons, 1970) and Foul Ball (Bulldog Publishing, 2003) on the use of steroids in Major League Baseball
» Jim Bouton
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Frank Deford senior contributing writer ...

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Food Politics

Marion Nestle, Professor and Chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University and Author Food Politics (University of California Press, 2002), on the dangers of relying on breakfast cereal for nutrition
» Marion Nestle
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Nick Menillo The senior director ...

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Light at the End of the Tunnel?

Joe Rappaport, Transit columnist for AM New York, on whether the MTA can use a tax increase dridge its deficit gap
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Diana Fortuna, President of the Citizens' Budget Commission
» Citizen's Budget Commission

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Towering Claims

Charles Bagli Reporter New York Times on the $2.2 Billion insurance dollars granted to Larry Silverstein and how it will be used

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With friends like these....

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is on his way home, he made a landmark trip to Latin America this month, and now he is wrapping up a two day visit in the United Kingdom. It is in London where he has made some waves, in an interview ...

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